The Topless Tower is Silvina Ocampo's most imaginative work, one which takes the canon of Western fantasy and turns it on its head. A cross between Alice in Wonderland and the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, it packs a whole fantastical world into a swift fever-dream narrative. The efforts of Leandro to escape the dreamlike tower where he has been spirited by the Devil are a key text of the South American surrealist movement. The youngest of six daughters of a well-connected and cosmopolitan Argentinian family, Silvina Ocampo was born in Buenos Aires in 1903. Over a long and fruitful career spanning seven decades, she distinguished herself in many areas, most notably as a writer of short fiction and poetry, but also as a visual artist, as well as an author of novels and stories for children. Among many other honours, her work was recognised with the Premio Nacional de Poesía in 1962. She worked on a number of classic anthologies and collaborative projects, most notably with the writer Adolfo Bioy Casares (whom she married in 1940), and their mutual friend Jorge Luis Borges. She died in 1993. James Womack is a writer and translator based in Cambridge, UK. Marian Womack is a bilingual writer. She has worked in academic libraries for more than a decade, as well as working as an editor, translator, and occasional bookseller. She has taught creative writing, publishing studies and book history in Spain and the UK, and teaches on the Oxford University writing programme. In English she has published the short story collection Lost Objects (Luna Press, 2018), shortlisted for one BSF and two BSFA awards, and the novels The Golden Key (Titan Books, 2020) and The Swimmers (Titan Books, 2021), selected as one of the 10 best SF novels of 2021 by The Sunday Times. In Spanish she has published a collection of short fiction and, together with Sofia Rhei, the YA novel Calle Andersen (La Galera, 2014). Her fiction has appeared in anthologies and magazines in both Spanish and English. Marian spent some years working in publishing, focusing on bringing untranslated genre female authors to Spanish-speaking countries. She was the first publisher in Spanish of authors including Nina Allan, Lisa Tuttle, Karen Tidbeck and Anna Starobinets. In 2015 she was named one of the most influential under-40s in Spanish-language publishing. The first Spanish graduate of the San Diego Clarion Writers' Workshop, Marian holds a PhD in Creative Writing, focusing on the ways weird and gothic fiction portray environmental anxieties. She was the first member of her family to attend University, and holds degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, and Glasgow Universities. An enthusiastic collage and pamphlet maker, she loves crafting and specially making handmade books, from letterpress printing to bookbinding.