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msand3 's review for:
The Blazing World and Other Writings
by Margaret Cavendish
1.5 stars. Oof. This one was a chore. Forget the description on the jacket blurb. This isn’t really a work of sci-fi, or a Utopian novella, or even a feminist text. Those are all just modern lenses through which to view what is a fictional political, scientific, and philosophical polemic steeped in 17th-century inside jokes. Cavendish’s life seems far more interesting than this book, for which I had such high expectations after reading the description -- the literary equivalent of an exciting trailer for a dull movie.