In Other Worlds
SF and the Human Imagination
In these marvelously wide-ranging essays, Margaret Atwood explores 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 influe…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-74176-9
- EAN: 9780307741769
- Produktnummer: 12456687
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.2 cm 275 g
- Gewicht: 275
Über den Autor
Margaret Atwood's books have been published in over forty countries. She is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, her novels include Cat's Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize; and her most recent novel, The Year of the Flood. She lives in Toronto with writer Graeme Gibson. www.margaretatwood.ca
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