{"product_id":"in-other-worlds-by-margaret-atwood-9781844087556","title":"In Other Worlds","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere she brings together three Ellmann lectures: \u003cem\u003e'Flying Rabbits'\u003c\/em\u003e begins with her early rabbit superhero creations and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos and Things with Wings; \u003cem\u003e'Burning Bushes'\u003c\/em\u003e travels into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and \u003cem\u003e'Dire Cartographies'\u003c\/em\u003e investigates Utopias and Dystopias, including Atwood's own ventures into those constructions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Other Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e is a must-read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430993412332,"sku":"9781844087556","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781844087556.jpg?v=1774558118","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/in-other-worlds-by-margaret-atwood-9781844087556","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}