Joanna Russ (LOA #373): The Female Man / We Who Are About To . . . / On Strike Against God / The Complet e Alyx Stories / Other Stories

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Rediscover one of America&’s 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 finest––and most necessary––writers of American fiction&” period. Here is her now-classic novel The Female Man (1975), in which four remarkable women––Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael––traverse 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. Russ&’s &“Complete Alyx Stories&”––which feature her inimitably sly, resilient, and stone-cold heroine Alyx, who is plucked from a life of petty crime in ancient Phoenicia to serve as adventurer-for-hire for the Trans-Temporal Authority, and which reinvent the sword and sorcery genre for a postmodern era––are presented in their entirety here for the first time, and newly restored to print.Also included are her unforgettable tales &“When It Changed&” and &“Souls,&” the former a 1973 Nebula Award winner and the latter the recipient of the 1983 Hugo and Locus Awards.
Copyright:
2023

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Book Size:
695 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781598537543
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9781598537536
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Library of America
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Language:
English
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Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Edited by:
Nicole Rudick

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