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frans_vdb 's review for:
The Blazing World and Other Writings
by Margaret Cavendish
Interesting conceptually, it is really a bit of a slog given the antiquated prose - but fascinating in that she thought up a parallel world reachable via the North Pole, a unified peaceful place despite the diverse sentient life forms. The first part is the best as she journeys into the Blazing World from our own but then the pace slows and the prose thickens markedly as the new Empress enquiries of her now subjects their understanding of all manner of physical, scientific and religious subjects...one or two of which are rather close in theory to modern science.
She also envisions submarines travelling under the polar ice cap, a full century before the first actual submarine - the American 'Turtle' of the Revolutionary War - and some 300 years before USS Nautilus did exactly that...
She also envisions submarines travelling under the polar ice cap, a full century before the first actual submarine - the American 'Turtle' of the Revolutionary War - and some 300 years before USS Nautilus did exactly that...