- From her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time at Harvard, where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form, and later as a writer and reviewer, Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with science fiction. Here she brings together three Ellmann lectures: "Flying Rabbits" begins with her early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes" travels into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies" investigates Utopias and Dystopias, including Atwood"s own ventures into those constructions. In further essays Atwood explores and critiques the form, and elucidates the differences - as she sees them - between "science fiction" proper, and "speculative fiction", not to mention "sword and sorcery", "fantasy" and "slipstream fiction". In Other Worlds is a must.