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 beyond; and ''Dire Cartographies''
investigates Utopias and Dystopias, including Atwood''s own ventures
into those constructions. In further essays Atwood explores and
critiques the form, and elucidates the differences - as she sees
them - between ''science fiction'' proper, and ''speculative fiction'',
not to mention ''sword and sorcery'', ''fantasy'' and ''slipstream
fiction''. In Other Worlds is a must.
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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.