The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come: Women Writing Fantastic Fiction, 1960s to the Present

"This book explores how contemporary fantastic fiction by women writers responds to the past and imagines the future. Writers considered include Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Angela Carter, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Jeanette Winterson. Thebook reveals how fantastic fiction can be read as narratives of disruption that enable the creation of an ethics of becoming"--