The Blazing World and Other Writings
Book description
Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century's most striking figures: a woman who ventured into the male spheres of politics, science, philosophy and literature. The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on…
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1 author picked The Blazing World and Other Writings as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Someone once told me if you want to read science fiction, you should start at the very beginning and gave me a copy of this book. Written in 1666, I’m not going to pretend this is an easy read but I would recommend it if only because it inspired so many of my favorite contemporary science fiction authors (including China Mieville and Alan Moore).
A woman stranded in a strange and hostile world becomes a military empress, the OG sci-fi action woman.
I admit this book originally felt like doing my homework, but by the time I finished, I immediately…
From Maud's list on science fiction novels about deadly women.
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