Monday, 15 October 2018
quote [ 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 reflects on what the book and its author Margaret Cavendish (one of the first women to publish using her own name) can teach us about empire, gender, and imagination in the seventeenth century. It is the middle of the seventeenth century and a Bear-man is helping an empress attempt to examine a whale through a ]
I'm into sci-fi (sci-fi,sci-fi)
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cb361 said @ 12:16pm GMT on 15th Oct
I always meant to find out what this was, after its referencing in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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mechanical contrivance said @ 1:14pm GMT on 15th Oct
Added to the list.
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