I have been invited to write a book review for PG CWWN, which as given me the excuse to take a break from my chapter on Angela Carter and read a bit more of one of my all-time favorite authors, Margaret Atwood. [Please note: this is not my actual review; this is just me sharing my excitement about Atwood.] She has recently published a new text In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination in which she takes a rather autobiographical approach to her lifelong relationship with SF. Having written only three of her 20-something novels in the form of SF, this may seem a surprise. Yet the pages are filled with literary history, historical criticism and a delightfully whimsical personal narrative woven together to display both depth and breadth of knowledge of SF, its influences, motifs, and visions.
Despite the hard back, this book was very easy to curl up with, and, indeed, take to bed.
