關於作者

瑪格麗特·阿特伍德（Margare Atwood，1939—）齣生於加拿大渥太華，早年在安大略北部和魁北剋度過，1962年獲哈佛大學文科碩士學位，曾任加拿大作傢協會主席。她是加拿大最著名的小說傢和詩人，其作品迄今已在全球35個國傢齣版。她曾推齣30多部作品，其中包括小說、詩歌與批評散文。她的小說《女僕的故事》《貓眼》與《彆名格雷斯》曾獲得加拿大的吉勒爾奬與意大利的雷米歐.濛德羅奬；《盲刺客》曾獲2000年英國布剋小說奬。

關於譯者

蔡希苑，南京大學英語翻譯碩士。主攻英語筆譯及認知翻譯理論。長期從事英語教學，業餘從事翻譯實踐多年。

吳厚平，南京大學英語翻譯碩士，譯有亨利•柏格森《時間與自由意誌》、《生命的真諦》（閤譯）。

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'.