Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the speculative / science fiction genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminate the essential truths about the modern world. With characteristic wit and punch, and understanding of our society and those who inhabit it, Atwood explores her relationship with Science Fiction as a writer and a reader.
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ISBN:9780771008481 :
Physical Description:print 255 p ; 22 cm.
Publisher:Toronto : Signal, 2011.
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Flying rabbits : denizens of distant spaces -- Burning bushes : why heaven and hell went to planet X -- Dire cartographies : the roads to ustopia -- An introductory note -- Women on the edge of time / Marge Piercy -- She / H. Rider Haggard -- The Queen of Quinkdom : the birthday of the world and other stories / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Arguing against ice cream : enough, staying human in an engineered age / Bill McKibben -- George Orwell : some personal connections -- Ten ways of looking at the Island of Doctor Moreau / H.G. Wells -- Never let me go / Kazuo Ishiguro -- After the last battle : visa for Avalon / Bryher -- Brave new world / Aldous Huxley -- Of the madness of mad scientists : Jonathan Swift's grand academy -- Five tributes : an introductory note -- Cryogenics : a symposium -- Cold-blooded -- Homelanding -- Time capsule found on the dead planet -- "The peach women of As'A" from the blind assassin.
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