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玛格丽特·阿特伍德（Margare Atwood，1939—）出生于加拿大渥太华，早年在安大略北部和魁北克度过，1962年获哈佛大学文科硕士学位，曾任加拿大作家协会主席。她是加拿大最著名的小说家和诗人，其作品迄今已在全球35个国家出版。她曾推出30多部作品，其中包括小说、诗歌与批评散文。她的小说《女仆的故事》《猫眼》与《别名格雷斯》曾获得加拿大的吉勒尔奖与意大利的雷米欧.蒙德罗奖；《盲刺客》曾获2000年英国布克小说奖。

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蔡希苑，南京大学英语翻译硕士。主攻英语笔译及认知翻译理论。长期从事英语教学，业余从事翻译实践多年。

吴厚平，南京大学英语翻译硕士，译有亨利•柏格森《时间与自由意志》、《生命的真谛》（合译）。

IN OTHER WORLDS: SF AND THE HUMAN IMAGINATION is Margaret Atwood's account of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as 'science fiction'. This relationship has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestors of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three Ellman Lectures on 2010 - 'Flying Rabbits', which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; 'Burning Bushes', which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and 'Dire Cartographies', which investigates Ustopias -Utopia/Dystopia - including her own ventures into those constructions. IN OTHER WORLDS also reprints some of Atwood's key reviews and speculations about the form, or forms - for she also elucidates the differences - as she sees them - between 'science fiction' proper, and 'speculative fiction', not to mention 'sword and sorcery/fantasy' and 'slipstream fiction'.