In Other Worlds - Essays - anthology - (Short Story Collection) PDF
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By Margaret Atwood FICTION The Edible Woman Surfacing Lady Oracle Dancing Girls Life Before Man Bodily Harm Murder in the Dark Bluebeard’s Egg The Handmaid’s Tale Cat’s Eye Wilderness Tips Good Bones The Robber Bride Alias Grace The Blind Assassin Good Bones and Simple Murders Oryx and Crake The Penelopiad The Tent Moral Disorder The Year of the Flood POETRY Double Persephone The Circle Game The Animals in That Country The Journals of Susanna Moodie Procedures for Underground Power Politics You Are Happy Selected Poems Two-Headed Poems True Stories Interlunar Selected Poems II: Poems Selected and New 1976–1986 Morning in the Burned House The Door NONFICTION Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature Days of the Rebels 1815–1840 Second Words Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature Two Solicitudes: Conversations (with Victor-Lévy Beaulieu) Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing Moving Targets: Writing with Intent 1982–2004 Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose 1983–2005 Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth FOR CHILDREN Up in the Tree Anna’s Pet (with Joyce Barkhouse) For the Birds Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda Copyright © 2011 by O.W. Toad Ltd. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. www.nanatalese.com DOUBLEDAY is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc. Nan A. Talese and the colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc. Simultaneously published in Canada by Signal, an imprint of McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto. Jacket design by Michael J. Windsor Jacket photograph by Alex and Felix. www.alexandfelix.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Atwood, Margaret, 1939– In other worlds : SF and the human imagination / Margaret Atwood. — 1st U.S. ed. p. cm. 1. Atwood, Margaret, 1939—Knowledge—Literature. 2. Atwood, Margaret, 1939—Knowledge— Science fiction. 3. Science fiction—History and criticism. 4. Science fiction—Authorship. I. Title. PR9199.3.A8Z545 2011 813’.54—dc22 2011013776 eISBN: 978-0-38553397-3 v3.1 For Ursula K. Le Guin Contents Cover Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Dedication Introduction In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination Flying Rabbits: Denizens of Distant Spaces Burning Bushes: Why Heaven and Hell Went to Planet X Dire Cartographies: The Roads to Ustopia Other Deliberations An Introductory Note Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy H. Rider Haggard’s She The Queen of Quinkdom: 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 Appendices An Open Letter from Margaret Atwood to the Judson Independent School District Weird Tales Covers of the 1930s Acknowledgements Permissions Acknowledgements About the Author Introduction I’m a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. OCTAVIA BUTLER Steel and Dotty (War in Mischiefland) by Margaret Atwood: I n Other Worlds is not a catalogue of science fiction, a grand theory about it, or a literary history of it. It is not a treatise, it is not definitive, it is not exhaustive, it is not canonical. It is not the work of a practising academic or an official guardian of a body of knowledge. Rather it is an exploration of my own lifelong relationship with a literary form, or forms, or subforms, both as reader and as writer. I say “lifelong,” for among the first things I wrote as a child might well
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