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We Who Are About To...

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Wesleyan University Press, Mar 15, 2005 - Fiction - 118 pages
A multi-dimensional explosion hurls the starship's few passengers across the galaxies and onto an uncharted barren tundra. With no technical skills and scant supplies, the survivors face a bleak end in an alien world. One brave woman holds the daring answer, but it is the most desperate one possible.

Elegant and electric, We Who Are About To... brings us face to face with our basic assumptions about our will to live. While most of the stranded tourists decide to defy the odds and insist on colonizing the planet and creating life, the narrator decides to practice the art of dying. When she is threatened with compulsory reproduction, she defends herself with lethal force. Originally published in 1977, this is one of the most subtle, complex, and exciting science fiction novels ever written about the attempt to survive a hostile alien environment. It is characteristic of Russ's genius that such a readable novel is also one of her most intellectually intricate.
  

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User Review  - Nate D - Goodreads

The unacceptability of outsiders. The inability of society to accept, discuss, or process perspectives that run sharply against its primary thrust. Not even so much against as just completely oblique ... Read full review

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User Review  - Cokewater - Goodreads

I really wanted to like this book but it is a piece of absolute sh*t. It doesn't even deserve one star but I can't seem to go lower than that here. This was my second Joanna Russ book after The Female ... Read full review

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Contents

Section 1
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Section 2
32
Section 3
75
Section 4
111
Section 5
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Copyright

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Waggish: Joanna Russ: We Who Are About To... [Die]
Even if it’s not as insidious as the great masculine traditions of literature, it’s far more blatant and clumsy, and We Who Are About To… is the equally ...
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The Mumpsimus: <i>We Who are About To...</i><br>by Joanna Russ
I sought out a copy of Joanna Russ's We Who are About To... after reading Samuel Delany's comments about the novel in his essay "Shadow and Ash", ...
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Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To… debuted almost thirty years ago. Wesleyan University Press, fortunately, has seen fit to reissue it in a handsome ...
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Feminist SFF & Utopia: Reviews: Joanna Russ
In We Who Are About To...(1977), Russ crash-lands a group of tourists on a deserted planet and turns the Robinson Crusoe plot on its head. ...
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Making Light: Jim Baen, 1943-2006
For example, he was one of Joanna Russ's publishers, and when he was the editor of Galaxy, he serialized We Who Are About To... -- a novel that was a ...
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We Who Are About To… and The Two of Them (published 1976 and 1978 ... Instead, as Delany points out in his introduction to We Who Are About To…, ...
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About the author (2005)

Best known for her novel The Female Man, JOANNA RUSS is the author of 16 books, many short stories, and several journal articles dealing with subjects of science fiction, feminism, and writing. She lives in Arizona. SAMUEL R. DELANY is a novelist living in New York who has won both Hugo and Nebula awards.

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TitleWe Who Are About To...
AuthorJoanna Russ
ContributorSamuel R. Delany
Editionreprint
PublisherWesleyan University Press, 2005
ISBN0819567590, 9780819567598
Length118 pages
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Fiction / Science Fiction / General
Social Science / Women's Studies
  
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