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Description edit
In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination is Margaret Atwood’s account of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as science fiction. This relationship has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s through her time as a... read more
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- Bryher
- Boyd
- Huxley
- Jonathan Swift
- Robinson
- Bill Mckibben
- H. Rider Haggard
- Gulliver
- Brundage
- George Orwell
- Tennyson
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- H. G. Wells
- Thomas More
- Leo
- Prendick
- Kathy H.
- Ayesha
- John Wyndham
- Piercy
- Julia
- George Macdonald
- Ishiguro
- Dr. Frankenstein
- Milton
- William Morris
- Alex Thomas
- Frye
First Sentence edit
In Other Worlds is not a catalogue of science fiction, a grand theory about it, or a literary history of it.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
Other Deliberations
Five Tributes
Appendices
Acknowledgements
Permissions Aknowledgements
Series & Lists edit
This book is in 2011 Locus Recommended Reading List: Non-Fiction. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Margaret Atwood (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Country: Canada
Publication Date: October 11, 2011
ISBN: 9780385533966
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Country: Canada
Publication Date: October 11, 2011
ISBN: 9780385533966
Page Count: 272
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PR9199.3.A8 Z545 2011
- Dewey: 813.54
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