| Edition |
1st U.S. ed. |
| Description |
255 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
In other worlds : SF and the human imagination. Flying rabbits : denizens of distant space ; Burning bushes : why heaven and hell went to Planet X ; Dire cartographies : the roads to Utopia -- Other deliberations. An introductory note ; Woman on the edge of time by Marge Piercy ; H. Rider Haggard's She ; The queen of quirkdom : The birthday of the world and other stories by Ursula K.Le Guin ; Arguing against ice cream : Enough : Staying human in an engineered age by Bill McKibben ; George Orwell : some personal connections ; Ten ways of looking at The island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells ; Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro ; After the last battle : Visa for Avalon by Bryher ; Brave new world by 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 Aa'a" from The Blind Assassin. |
| Subject |
Atwood, Margaret, 1939- -- Knowledge -- Literature.
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Atwood, Margaret, 1939- -- Knowledge -- Science fiction.
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Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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Science fiction -- Authorship.
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| ISBN |
9780385533966 (hbk.) : $24.95 |
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0385533969 (hbk.) |
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