{"product_id":"in-other-worlds-sf-and-the-human-imagination-9780771008412b","title":"In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eIn Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination\u003c\/span\u003e is Margaret Atwood's account of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as \"science fiction.\" This relationship has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestors of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010, including \"\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFlying Rabbits\u003c\/span\u003e,\" which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and \"\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThings with Wings\u003c\/span\u003e\". In Other Worldsalso reprints some of Atwood's key reviews of other practitioners of the form and thoughts about SF.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor all readers who love the work of Margaret Atwood, especially \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake,\u003c\/span\u003e and \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Year of the Flood\u003c\/span\u003e--not to mention Atwood's 100,000-plus Twitter followers--\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eIn Other Worlds\u003c\/span\u003e is a must.","brand":"Emblem Editions","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42818769289296,"sku":"9780771008412B","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9780771008412-l.jpg?v=1785873221","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/in-other-worlds-sf-and-the-human-imagination-9780771008412b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}