The Country You Have Never Seen: Essays and ReviewsIn 1959, at the age of 22, Joanna Russ published her first science fiction story, "Nor Custom Stale," in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. In the forty-five years since, Russ has continued to write some of the most popular, creative, and important novels and stories in science fiction. She was a central figure, along with contemporaries Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree, in revolutionizing science fiction in the 1960s and 1970s, and her 1970 novel, The Female Man, is widely regarded as one of the most successful and influential depictions of a feminist utopia in the entire genre. The Country You Have Never Seen gathers Joanna Russ's most important essays and reviews, revealing the vital part she played over the years in the never-ending conversation among writers and fans about the roles, boundaries, and potential of science fiction. Spanning her entire career, the collection shines a light on Russ's role in the development of new wave science fiction and feminist science fiction, while at the same time providing fascinating insight into her own development as a writer. |
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Page 92
... ideas . Most of the stories in both books don't get beyond the idea of mechanical substitutes for sex - gadgets or android partners or recordings . There is practically no group sex , no promiscuity rendered genuinely and from the ...
... ideas . Most of the stories in both books don't get beyond the idea of mechanical substitutes for sex - gadgets or android partners or recordings . There is practically no group sex , no promiscuity rendered genuinely and from the ...
Page 147
... idea that science fiction ought to resemble received ideas about what “ literature ” is that led the editor to the first four stories in the anthology , none of which is first - rate and all of which are familiar ideas worked out in ...
... idea that science fiction ought to resemble received ideas about what “ literature ” is that led the editor to the first four stories in the anthology , none of which is first - rate and all of which are familiar ideas worked out in ...
Page 153
... ideas ( " We haven't any , " she says simply ) to her enthusiastic praise of romantic , heterosexual marriage : - " There is something very beautiful in the idea , " she admitted ... as if she were discussing life on Mars . “ This ...
... ideas ( " We haven't any , " she says simply ) to her enthusiastic praise of romantic , heterosexual marriage : - " There is something very beautiful in the idea , " she admitted ... as if she were discussing life on Mars . “ This ...
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Country You Have Never Seen: Science Fiction Reviews and Essays Joanna Russ No preview available - 2001 |
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