# In Other Worlds

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- Book: [In Other Worlds](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-atwood/in-other-worlds) ([In Other Worlds.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-atwood/in-other-worlds.md))
- Authors: [Margaret Atwood](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-atwood)
- Publisher: virago
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4812-638-5
- Published: 2011-10-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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