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In other worlds : (Record no. 20753)

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control field 2011013776
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control field 20190729104455.0
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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2011013776
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780385533966 (hbk.)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0385533969 (hbk.)
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System control number (OCoLC)ocn699764090
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Authentication code pcc
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC)
Holding library EY8Z
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number PR9199.3.A8
Item number Z545 2011
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 813/.54
Edition number 22
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 808.83876
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Atwood, Margaret,
Dates associated with a name 1939-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title In other worlds :
Remainder of title SF and the human imagination /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Margaret Atwood.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st U.S. ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c2011.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent x, 255 p. ;
Dimensions 22 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction," a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010: "Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes," which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies," which investigates Utopias and Dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between "science fiction" proper and "speculative fiction," as well as between "sword and sorcery/fantasy" and "slipstream fiction." For all readers who have loved The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must.
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600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Atwood, Margaret,
Dates associated with a name 1939-
General subdivision Knowledge
-- Literature.
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Atwood, Margaret,
Dates associated with a name 1939-
General subdivision Knowledge
-- Science fiction.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Science fiction
General subdivision History and criticism.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Science fiction
General subdivision Authorship.
948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN)
Series part designator, SPT (RLIN) u333452
949 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC)
a PR9199.3 .A8 Z545 2011
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h EY8Z
i 33039001183937
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    Library of Congress Classification     Stacks 06/19/2018 1 3 PR9199.3 .A8 Z545 2011 33039001183937 07/27/2023 03/08/2021 1 Book

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