October 11, 2011 marked the publication date of Margaret Atwood’s newest book, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, a collection of essays dealing with the author’s views upon the widely popular genre of science fiction. In her book, Atwood discusses the history and theory of the genre, explaining her own controversial opinion about the difference between “science fiction” proper and “speculative fiction”, as she calls her recent forays into SF, her novels Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood. What is more, she writes about the works of some prominent authors of the genre, such as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Ursula K. Le Guin among others. The essays are complemented by several original short stories.
Some interesting reviews:
Miami Herald
Podcast of an interview with Margaret Atwood herself:
Trivia:
In cooperation with Canopy, an environmental group based in Vancouver, Atwood launched an autographed limited version of In Other Worlds, printed on paper made entirely of straw, as part of a campaign against needless cutting down of trees and for new, alternative ways of creating paper. (Read more about it here: the Globe and Mail )
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