In other worlds : SF and the human imagination / Margaret Atwood.
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
2011
PR9199.3.A8 Z545 2011 (Mapit)
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Title In other worlds : SF and the human imagination / Margaret Atwood.
Author Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
ISBN 9780385533966
0385533969
Imprint New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2011.
Language English
Description x, 255 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number PR9199.3.A8 Z545 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 813/.54
808.83876
Summary At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction," a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010: "Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes," which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies," which investigates Utopias and Dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between "science fiction" proper and "speculative fiction," as well as between "sword and sorcery/fantasy" and "slipstream fiction." For all readers who have loved The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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In other worlds : SF and the human imagination. Flying rabbits : denizens of distant space
Burning bushes : why heaven and hell went to Planet X
Dire cartographies : the roads to Utopia
Other deliberations. An introductory note
Woman on the edge of time by Marge Piercy
H. Rider Haggard's She
The queen of quinkdom : The birthday of the world and other stories by Ursula K.Le Guin
Arguing against ice cream : Enough : staying human in an engineered age by Bill McKibben
George Orwell : some personal connections
Ten ways of looking at The island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro
After the last battle : Visa for Avalon by Bryher
Brave new world by Aldous Huxley
Of the madness of mad scientists : Jonathan Swift's Grand Academy
Five tributes. An introductory note
Cryogenics : a symposium
Cold-blooded
Homelanding
Time capsule found on the dead planet
"The peach women of Aa'a" from The Blind Assassin
Appendices. An open letter from Margaret Atwood to the Judson Independent School District
Weird tales covers of the 1930s.

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