| Author |
Atwood, Margaret |
| Year |
2011 |
| Publisher |
New York: Nan A. Talese |
| Number of pages |
255 |
| ISBN |
9780307741769 |
| Keywords |
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Abstract
Amazon (2013):
The author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake engagingly explores her lifelong
relationship to science fiction, both as a reader and as a writer.
At a time when the borders between literary genres are increasingly porous, Margaret
Atwood maps the richly fertile crosscurrents of speculative and science fiction, slipstream,
utopias and dystopias, and fantasy, and muses on their roots in the age-old human
impulse to imagine new worlds. She shares the evolution of her personal fascination
with this branch of literature, from her days as a child inventing a race of flying
superhero rabbits, to her graduate study of the Victorian ancestors of SF to her appreciations
of such influential writers as Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula K. LeGuin, Kazuo
Ishiguro, Aldous Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. As humorous and charming as it is insightful
and provocative, In Other Worlds brilliantly illuminates “the wilder storms on the
wilder seas of invention.”
