Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of,  1624?-1674 <br/><br/>
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blazing_World  Release date is 2016-04-18 
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<br/><br/> "The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World" by Margaret Cavendish is a work of prose fiction published in 1666. A young woman is kidnapped and swept to the North Pole, where she discovers a portal to a parallel world inhabited by human-animal hybrids. Mistaken for a goddess, she becomes empress of this strange realm, imposing new religions and philosophies. When war threatens her homeland, she returns with fantastical technologies to restore order, blurring the lines between conquest, creation, and utopian imagination. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Science fiction Utopias -- Fiction Voyages, Imaginary -- Early works to 1800 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR