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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... kill them . The polite and well - bred Alan - Bobby has only to wake up to the fact that he is stronger than anyone else for civilization to slide back three thousand years . The allegorical resonances with a society that feels the ...
... kill them . The polite and well - bred Alan - Bobby has only to wake up to the fact that he is stronger than anyone else for civilization to slide back three thousand years . The allegorical resonances with a society that feels the ...
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... kill other women . However paradoxical it may appear , these deaths are central to the form of Russ's feminist ... killed four times " ) or her hunting down and mudering of the renegade woman philosopher Belin above the 48th parallel ...
... kill other women . However paradoxical it may appear , these deaths are central to the form of Russ's feminist ... killed four times " ) or her hunting down and mudering of the renegade woman philosopher Belin above the 48th parallel ...
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... killed her had she experienced it all herself . “ That child , " Valeria tells the narrator proudly , " cost as much money as a small New England state . " While the narrator has snuck back to the camp with the intention of murdering ...
... killed her had she experienced it all herself . “ That child , " Valeria tells the narrator proudly , " cost as much money as a small New England state . " While the narrator has snuck back to the camp with the intention of murdering ...
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... kill. He dies because the heart medicine that would keep him alive is presumably no longer available. Though the narrator offers him a suicide pill from among her extensive pharmacopia to avoid a protracted death, he declines it. Russ's ...
... kill. He dies because the heart medicine that would keep him alive is presumably no longer available. Though the narrator offers him a suicide pill from among her extensive pharmacopia to avoid a protracted death, he declines it. Russ's ...
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