{"product_id":"9781844087556","title":"In Other Worlds","description":"Author: Margaret Atwood\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781844087556\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 25 Sep 2012\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.'\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIN OTHER WORDS is a must-read.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46720690913438,"sku":"ADS-9781844087556","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781844087556.jpg?v=1776217109","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781844087556","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}