We Who Are About To . . .One woman resists the demands of her fellow stranded survivors on an inhospitable planet in this “elegant and electric . . . tour-de-force” (Samuel R. Delany). In this stunning and boldly imagined novel, an explosion leaves the passengers of a starship marooned on a barren alien planet. Despite only a slim chance for survival, most of the strangers are determined to colonize their new home. But the civilization they hoped for rapidly descends into a harsh microcosm of a male-dominated society, with the females in the group relegated to the subservient position of baby-makers. One holdout wants to accept her fate realistically and prepare for death. But her desperate fellow survivors have no intention of honoring her individual right to choose. They’re prepared to force her to submit to their plan for reproduction—which will prove to be a grave mistake . . . In Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Joanna Russ’s trailblazing body of work, “her genius flows and convinces, shames and alarms” (The Washington Post). |
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... death - which , tearfully , she acquiesces to.1 The equations which govern We Who Are About to ... are just as cold ; but they are far more complex . At the height of the New Wave , an sf convention that particularly exorcised editor ...
... death - which , tearfully , she acquiesces to.1 The equations which govern We Who Are About to ... are just as cold ; but they are far more complex . At the height of the New Wave , an sf convention that particularly exorcised editor ...
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... death , five murders , and two suicides which comprise the actual plot . With its cast of a child and seven socially functional adults -all but the narrator , in effect , in thrall to just that notion of an impossibly generous universe ...
... death , five murders , and two suicides which comprise the actual plot . With its cast of a child and seven socially functional adults -all but the narrator , in effect , in thrall to just that notion of an impossibly generous universe ...
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... death ( p . 55 ) : " Whileawayans are not as peaceful as they sound " ( p . 49 ) -these deaths occur in situations in which women have achieved enough power to be worth it , or even necessary , to remove . We cannot leave this topic ...
... death ( p . 55 ) : " Whileawayans are not as peaceful as they sound " ( p . 49 ) -these deaths occur in situations in which women have achieved enough power to be worth it , or even necessary , to remove . We cannot leave this topic ...
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... death, he declines it. Russ's refusal to avoid the realities of death, both as a social and personal fact and a rich discursive field for metaphysical elaboration, is one of her major writerly strengths. Again and again, it brings her ...
... death, he declines it. Russ's refusal to avoid the realities of death, both as a social and personal fact and a rich discursive field for metaphysical elaboration, is one of her major writerly strengths. Again and again, it brings her ...
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... death take little more than a tenth of a second to go anywhere ! ... where human life is supposed to be possible, then ejects. We're nowhere . We'll die alone . paper , This is space travel . Imagine a flat world , a piece of say , with ...
... death take little more than a tenth of a second to go anywhere ! ... where human life is supposed to be possible, then ejects. We're nowhere . We'll die alone . paper , This is space travel . Imagine a flat world , a piece of say , with ...
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