In Other Worlds
SF and the Human Imagination
$25.93
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
25 September 2012
Summary
From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form and later as a writer and reviewer, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with science fiction.
Here she brings together three Ellmann lectures: ‘Flying Rabbits’ begins with her early rabbit superhero creations and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos and Things with Wings; ‘Burning Bushes’ travels into Victorian otherlands and b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844087556 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844087557 |
| Author: | Margaret Atwood |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 25 September 2012 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Virago Press |
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Critics Review
Eminently readable and accessible… The lectures are insightful and cogently argued with a neat comic turn of phrase… Her enthusiasm and level of intellectual engagement are second to none. - Financial Times - James Lovegrove
About The Author
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty works, including fiction, poetry and critical essays and her books have been published in over thirty-five countries. She has won many literary awards and prizes. She lives in Canada.
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