IN OTHER WORLDS: SF AND THE HUMAN IMAGINATION By Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood writes about story-telling and how the books she read in her youth led her to become a writer. Atwood grew up a voracious reader. She loved Sherlock and Oz and science fiction. Atwood read H. G. Wells, Verne, and more contemporary SF writers like John Wyndham. Her analysis of the differences between Wells and Verne are enlightening. Atwood tells how she came to write dystopian books like The Handmaiden’s Tale, Oryx and Crake, and Year of the Flood. I found Atwood’s insights clever and thought-provoking. GRADE: A

8 thoughts on “IN OTHER WORLDS: SF AND THE HUMAN IMAGINATION By Margaret Atwood

    1. george Post author

      I prefer Wells over Verne, too, Drongo. According to Atwood, Verne dismissed Wells because Wells wrote about things Verne thought could never happen: time machines, Martian invasions. Verne wrote about things he thought would happen: atomic submarines, etc.

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