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Guide to the classics: Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World pioneered speculative fiction, 400 years ago

The Blazing World is a testament to how far the written novel has travelled in the past 400 years. A literary time capsule, it holds within it the origins of a genre we now call speculative fiction.

by Donna Mazza

https://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-margaret-cavendishs-the-blazing-world-pioneered-speculative-fiction-400-years-ago-263329

Books by Margaret Cavendish at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/46554

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Guide to the classics: Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World pioneered speculative fiction, 400 years ago

The Blazing World is an amazing vision which ends as bewilderingly as it begins, making the reader’s head spin.

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