In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination Author: [Canada] Margaret Atwood Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House

Introduction
In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination is not a list of science fiction novels, nor a grand theory, nor a literary history; it is not a monograph on science fiction, with no definition, no detailed analysis, and no authoritative canon. It is not the result of years of research by a devout scholar, nor is it a moralist guarding a certain knowledge system. "It is just an in-depth review of my relationship with one or more literary forms and their sub-forms in my life, as a reader and author." Through this book, Margaret Atwood reviews her lifelong relationship with science fiction, from her childhood to her time as a student at Harvard University, and then to her later years as a novelist and critic. These articles are insightful, cleverly analyzed, and sometimes unexpectedly humorous and cunning, making people feel like they are in the spring breeze.
About the Author
Margaret Atwood, known as the "Queen of Canadian Literature", is a diligent and prolific writer and one of the few poets in the 20th century Canadian literary world who enjoys international reputation. She currently lives in Toronto.
Since the mid-1960s, Atwood has given critics no chance to forget her with her enduring and vigorous creativity. She has won most of the major international literary awards except the Nobel Prize in Literature, and has been awarded honorary doctorates by more than a dozen institutions including the University of Toronto. Her works have been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2017, Atwood won the Kafka Prize and the German Book Industry Peace Prize. In 2019, Atwood once again won the Booker Prize with "Testimony".
Table of contents · · · · · ·
Table of contents
Preface
In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination
Flying Rabbits: Aliens from Far Space
The Burning Bush: Why Heaven and Hell Went to Planet X
Bad Cartography: The Road to Dystopia
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Introduction
"Woman on the Edge of Time" by Maggie Pius
"Her" by H. Rider Haggard
Queen of the Kingdom of Male and Female Kings: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Birth of the World and Other Stories
Against ice cream: Bill McKibben's "Contentment: Staying Human in the Age of Mechanization"
George Orwell: My connection with him
10 ways to look at HG Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau
Never Forget by Kazuo Ishiguro
After the Last Battle: Brier's Visa to Avalon
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Madness of a Mad Scientist: Jonathan Swift's Great Academy of Sciences
Five chapters of dedication
Preface
Cryonics: A discussion
Cold-blooded animals
Homecoming
Time capsule found on dead planet
Peach Woman on Planet Aa'A
appendix
Margaret Atwood's open letter to Judson Independent School District
Weird Tales cover from the 1930s
Acknowledgements