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Informationen zum Autor Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic , was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 2015. terrypratchettbooks.com Tony Robinson is best known as 'Baldrick' from the famous Blackadder series. On top of his acting credentials, Tony is also a successful TV presenter and is currently presenting Channel 4's Time Team. He has also written several children's non fiction books, notably for Hodder, and lives in west London. Klappentext 'Margaret Atwood is a writer of metaphysical wit! who can always twist our preconceptions . . . She is genuinely inventive! and her quirky and satirical wit does not limit or define her' Sunday Telegraph In Other Worlds is Margaret Atwood's account of her lifelong relationship with the literary form we have come to know as 'science fiction'! from her days as a child reader! through her time at Harvard! where she studied the Victorian ancestors of the form! and later as a writer and reviewer. In this volume she brings together three Ellmann lectures! including 'Dire Cartographies' which investigates Utopias and Dystopias! and touches on Atwood's own ventures into those constructions. In further essays Atwood explores and elucidates the differences - as she sees them - between 'science fiction' proper! and 'speculative fiction'. For readers who loved The Handmaid's Tale ! Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood ! In Other Worlds is a must. 'Eminently readable and accessible . . . The lectures are insightful and cogently argued with a neat comic turn of phrase . . . Her enthusiasm and level of intellectual engagement are second to none' James Lovegrove! Financial Times Zusammenfassung There's a Death in the family.It's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy. And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music that has entered Discworld. It's lawless....
