In Other Worlds SF and the Human Imagination

<p><b><b>A marvelous collection of wide-ranging essays from the bestselling author of <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i> and <i>The Testaments,</i> exploring her lifelong relationship to science fiction—as a reader and as a writer</b><br><br></b>At a time when the borders between genres are increasingly porous, she maps the fertile crosscurrents of speculative and science fiction, utopias, dystopias, slipstream, and fantasy, musing on the age-old human impulse to imagine new worlds. She shares the evolution of her personal fascination with SF, from her childhood invention of a race of flying superhero rabbits to her graduate study of its Victorian antecedents to the creation of her own acclaimed novels. <br><br>Studded with appreciations of such influential writers as Marge Piercy, Ursula K. LeGuin, Kazuo Ishiguro, H. Rider Haggard, Aldous Huxley, H. G. Wells, and Jonathan Swift, <i>In Other Worlds </i>is as humorous and charming as it is insightful and provocative.<br><br></p>