Notes and Misconceptions
Calling it early science fiction is useful but incomplete. It is also utopian fantasy, institutional satire, and authorial performance.
Its strangeness is not incompetence. Cavendish breaks form because the available forms do not fit what she wants to do.
Best Path
Early sci-fi, women writers, speculative classics
Reading Paths
Strange Before Modern
Older books that already know how to be unstable, comic, speculative, and formally strange.
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