Writer, translator, essayist, editor, and critic, Élisabeth Vonarburg is a key figure in the science-fiction field in Quebec, and one of the most acclaimed science-fiction authors in Canada. She has published more than fifteen books, several essays and reviews, and many short stories, for which she has received multiple awards and invitations to science-fiction conventions. Many of her texts have been translated in several languages and distributed in the United States and England as well as in distant countries such as Italy, Romania, and Japan. Joan Gordon's appreciation of Le Silence de la cité (1981; translated as The Silent City, 1988) and Chroniques du Pays des Mères (1992; translated as In the Mother's Land, 1992) in a review in the January 1994 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction may apply to every one of Vonarburg's writings: all "are significant contributions to the body of feminist sf...