The Adventures of Alyx

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Baen Pub., 1986 - Fiction - 270 pages
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Alyx, a warrior and assassin, accepts a job as bodyguard, sails with Blackbeard, works for a sorcerer and acts as a Trans-Temp agent in a future commercial war

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User Review  - questbird - LibraryThing

Alyx is the hero of these five tales. She is fearless, determined, amoral, a complex character. No man can detain her. In the earlier stories she is Alyx the Pickpocket or Alyx the Murderer; later she ... Read full review

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The Adventures of Alyx is a collection of four short stories and a novella. The first three short stories follow a small-time tough named Alyx on a series of typical fantasy adventures. Alyx is an ... Read full review

Contents

Bluestocking
1
Thought She Was Afeard Till
33
The Barbarian
57
Copyright

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About the author (1986)

Joanna Russ was born in New York City on February 22, 1937. She received a degree in English from Cornell University in 1957 and a MFA in playwriting from the Yale Drama School in 1960. She taught at various colleges and universities during her lifetime including a long stint at the University of Washington in Seattle. She was a critic and science fiction writer best known for books of criticism such as The Female Man (1975) and How to Suppress Women's Writing (1984) as well as the novel And Chaos Died (1970). She died on April 29, 2011 at the age of 74.

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TitleThe Adventures of Alyx
AuthorJoanna Russ
Editionreissue
PublisherBaen Pub., 1986
ISBN0671656015, 9780671656010
Length270 pages
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