Mistress of a New World: Early Science Fiction in Europe’s “Age of Discovery”
Adam Green - October 11, 2018 in Books, early science fiction, empire, imperialism, Literature, proto science fiction, science fiction
Considered by many one of the founding texts of the science fiction genre, The Blazing World — via a dizzy mix of animal-human hybrids, Immaterial Spirits, and burning foes — tells of a woman’s absolute rule as Empress over a parallel planet. Emily Lord Fransee explores what the book and its author Margaret Cavendish (one […]