@article{436863,
      recid = {436863},
      author = {Atwood, Margaret,},
      title = {In other worlds : SF and the human imagination /},
      publisher = {Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {x, 255 p. ;},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {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 This book brings  together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures  from 2010: "Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's  early rabbit superhero creations and goes on to speculate  about masks, capes,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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436863},
}