ISBN10: 1598537539, ISBN13: 9781598537536, [publisher: The Library of America, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Rediscover one of Americas best SF writers in a definitive hardcover edition gathering all her finest work together for the first timeA LGBTQIA+ pioneer joins the Library of America seriesAn incandescent stylist with a dark sense of humor and a provocative feminist edge, Joanna Russ upended every genre in which she worked. The essential novels and stories gathered in this definitive Library of America edition make a case for Russ not only as an astonishing writer of speculative fiction, but, in the words of Samuel Delany, one of the finestand most necessarywriters of American fiction period. Here is her now-classic novel The Female Man (1975), in which four remarkable womenJeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jaeltraverse alternate histories and parallel worlds (including the brilliantly imagined all-female utopia, Whileaway) in a multi-voiced, multidimensional voyage that continues to alter readers sense of gender and reality.We Who Are About To (1977), recounting the fate of a misfit band of space-tourists stranded on an alien world, challenges golden age expectations about civilization, in what becomes an allegorical thriller.In On Strike Against God (1980), her incisive, darkly comic, and ultimately joyous final novel, Russ returns to Earth to explore LGBTQIA+ and feminist themes and the unfamiliar territory of coming out and lesbian romance. Russs Complete Alyx ...

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ISBN10: 1598537539, ISBN13: 9781598537536, [publisher: Library of America] Hardcover Joanna Russ (1937&ndash2011) is often described, along with Philip K. Dick and Ursula K. Le Guin, as one of the breakout stars of science fiction&rsquos &ldquonew wave&rdquo of the 1960s and 1970s. She taught&nbsp at&nbsp several prestigious un.
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ISBN10: 1598537539, ISBN13: 9781598537536, [publisher: The Library of America, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Rediscover one of Americas best SF writers in a definitive hardcover edition gathering all her finest work together for the first timeA LGBTQIA+ pioneer joins the Library of America seriesAn incandescent stylist with a dark sense of humor and a provocative feminist edge, Joanna Russ upended every genre in which she worked. The essential novels and stories gathered in this definitive Library of America edition make a case for Russ not only as an astonishing writer of speculative fiction, but, in the words of Samuel Delany, one of the finestand most necessarywriters of American fiction period. Here is her now-classic novel The Female Man (1975), in which four remarkable womenJeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jaeltraverse alternate histories and parallel worlds (including the brilliantly imagined all-female utopia, Whileaway) in a multi-voiced, multidimensional voyage that continues to alter readers sense of gender and reality.We Who Are About To (1977), recounting the fate of a misfit band of space-tourists stranded on an alien world, challenges golden age expectations about civilization, in what becomes an allegorical thriller.In On Strike Against God (1980), her incisive, darkly comic, and ultimately joyous final novel, Russ returns to Earth to explore LGBTQIA+ and feminist themes and the unfamiliar territory of coming out and lesbian romance. Russs Complete Alyx ...