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