What Mad Universe?!?
An adventure through the history of pulp SF and fantasy!
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S4E109 -Chapter One Hundred and Nine: Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On!

On THE BLAZING WORLD by Margaret Cavendish

This week, wayfarers, we go WAY back, to 1666, and the first European work of feminist Science Fiction--in fact, one of the first works of Science Fiction as we know it--Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World, a travelogue, pontification, and philosophical potboiler.

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