In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination - Brossura

Atwood, Margaret

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ISBN 10: 1844087557 ISBN 13: 9781844087556

Casa editrice: Virago, 2012

Riassunto

From the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace

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Rabbit superheroes. A theory of masks and capes. Victorian otherlands.

From her 1940s childhood to her time at Harvard, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with SF. In 2010, she delivered a lecture series at Emory University called 'In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination.' This book is the result of those lectures. It includes essays on Ursula Le Guin and H G Wells, her interesting distinction between 'science fiction proper' and 'speculative fiction', and the letter which she wrote to the school which tried to ban The Handmaid's Tale.

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'Spooky . . . wild' - Telegraph

'Elegant and witty' - Guardian

'Eminently readable and accessible . . . The lectures are insightful and cogently argued with a neat comic turn of phrase . . . Her enthusiasm and level of intellectual engagement are second to none' - Financial Times

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Recensione:

Eminently readable and accessible . . . The lectures are insightful and cogently argued with a neat comic turn of phrase . . . Her enthusiasm and level of intellectual engagement are second to none (James Lovegrove Financial Times)

Descrizione del libro:

Margaret Atwood's fascinating account of her lifelong relationship with science and speculative fiction.

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• Editore: Virago
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1844087557
• ISBN 13: 9781844087556
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272