TY - BOOK AU - Newcastle,Margaret Cavendish,Duchess of TI - The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World AV - PR PY - 2016/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Science fiction KW - Utopias -- Fiction KW - Voyages, Imaginary -- Early works to 1800 N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blazing_World; Release date is 2016-04-18; Produced by Marc D'Hooghe; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51783 ER -