In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination is Margaret Atwood�s account of her rela�tionship with the literary form we have come to know as science fiction. This relationship has been lifelong, stretch�ing from her days as a child reader in the 1940s through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she explored the Victorian ancestors of the form, and continuing with her work as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures of 2010��Flying Rabbits,� which begins with Atwood�s early rabbit superhero creations and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; �Burning Bushes,� which follows her into Victorian other-lands and beyond; and �Dire Cartographies,� which investi�gates utopias and dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood�s key reviews and musings about the form, including her elucidation of the differences (as she sees them) between �science fiction� proper and �speculative fiction,� as well as �sword and sorcery/fantasy� and �slip�stream fiction.� For all readers who have loved The Handmaid�s Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood�not to mention Atwood�s 100,000-plus Twitter fol�lowers� In Other Worlds is a must.