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In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

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by Margaret Atwood
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Availability:In StockContributor:Margaret AtwoodPublish date:2012-08-21Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780307741769ISBN-10:307741761UPC:9780307741769Book Category:Literary Criticism, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Science Fiction & Fantasy, Women Authors, Personal MemoirsSize:7.97 x 5.20 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SC3B9ATDM7

A marvelous collection of wide-ranging essays from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, exploring her lifelong relationship to science fiction--as a reader and as a writer

At a time when the borders between genres are increasingly porous, she maps the fertile crosscurrents of speculative and science fiction, utopias, dystopias, slipstream, and fantasy, musing on the age-old human impulse to imagine new worlds. She shares the evolution of her personal fascination with SF, from her childhood invention of a race of flying superhero rabbits to her graduate study of its Victorian antecedents to the creation of her own acclaimed novels.

Studded with appreciations of such influential writers as Marge Piercy, Ursula K. LeGuin, Kazuo Ishiguro, H. Rider Haggard, Aldous Huxley, H. G. Wells, and Jonathan Swift, In Other Worlds is as humorous and charming as it is insightful and provocative.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Anchor BooksISBN-13:9780307741769ISBN-10:307741761UPC:9780307741769Book Category:Literary Criticism, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Science Fiction & Fantasy, Women Authors, Personal MemoirsSize:7.97 x 5.20 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SC3B9ATDM7
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, was followed in 2019 by a sequel, The Testaments, which was a global number one bestseller and won the Booker Prize. In 2020 she published Dearly, her first collection of poetry for a decade.

Atwood has won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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