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