Picnic on ParadiseA new kind of sci-fi heroine, the tough-as-nails Alyx, is introduced in this Nebula Award finalist that Poul Anderson called an “extraordinary” novel. Set in a semi-utopian world, Joanna Russ’s groundbreaking debut novel is the story of Alyx, a female soldier, survival guide, and agent of the Trans-Temporal Authority. Displaced in time from her ancient Greece, Alyx is tasked with safely leading a group of pampered human vacationers—including some unconventional nuns and a detached teenager known as the Machine—across an uninhabited scenic terrain to a relief station. But the journey proves more challenging than anticipated as they confront one another’s failings; the physical dangers of an icy, hostile wilderness; and Alyx’s own personal demons. Long before the kick-ass heroines of current science fiction and fantasy, Russ unapologetically introduced readers to a short, strong, middle-aged (for her world/time) woman of twenty-six who knows how to survive but struggles with the emotional nuances of her charges and the confusion of her own mixed feelings. With iconic characters like Alyx, Russ “four decades ago helped deliver science fiction into the hands of the most alien creatures the genre had yet seen—women . . . [and] helped inaugurate the now flourishing tradition of feminist science fiction” (The New York Times). |
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Joanna Russ. HUGO AND NEBULA AWARD - WINNING AUTHOR OF THE FEMALE MAN JOANNA RUSS PICNIC ON PARADISE EARLY BIRD BOOKS FRESH DEALS , DELIVERED DAILY Love To. Front Cover.
Joanna Russ. HUGO AND NEBULA AWARD - WINNING AUTHOR OF THE FEMALE MAN JOANNA RUSS PICNIC ON PARADISE EARLY BIRD BOOKS FRESH DEALS , DELIVERED DAILY Love To. Front Cover.
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Joanna Russ. PORTALIST The Galaxy's Greatest Newsletter Delivered to Your Inbox Get fantastic deals on science fiction and fantasy ebooks delivered to your inbox every week ! SIGN UP NOW at theportalist.com PRAISE FOR THE WRITING OF ...
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Joanna Russ. PRAISE FOR THE WRITING OF JOANNA RUSS " As hard and mean and fine as Flannery O'Connor ... I wish that everyone would read Joanna Russ's books . " -Dorothy Allison " Joanna Russ offers a gallery of some of the most ...
Joanna Russ. PRAISE FOR THE WRITING OF JOANNA RUSS " As hard and mean and fine as Flannery O'Connor ... I wish that everyone would read Joanna Russ's books . " -Dorothy Allison " Joanna Russ offers a gallery of some of the most ...
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Joanna Russ. " If this were a film it could be one of Peckinpah's , violent , self - indulgent , obsessively contemptuous of humanity , nihilistic and fascinating . ” —Publishers Weekly Picnic on Paradise " The depth , humanity and craft ...
Joanna Russ. " If this were a film it could be one of Peckinpah's , violent , self - indulgent , obsessively contemptuous of humanity , nihilistic and fascinating . ” —Publishers Weekly Picnic on Paradise " The depth , humanity and craft ...
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