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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... light of our dying may not reach you for a thousand million years ... We're a handful of persons in a metal bungalow : five women , three men , bedding , chemical toilet , simple tools , and even simpler pocket laboratory , freeze ...
... light of our dying may not reach you for a thousand million years ... We're a handful of persons in a metal bungalow : five women , three men , bedding , chemical toilet , simple tools , and even simpler pocket laboratory , freeze ...
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... light of their dying - though the working out of the tortuous and protracted extinctions lingers on another few months , in terms of the single natural death , five murders , and two suicides which comprise the actual plot . With its ...
... light of their dying - though the working out of the tortuous and protracted extinctions lingers on another few months , in terms of the single natural death , five murders , and two suicides which comprise the actual plot . With its ...
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... Light Fantastic , New York : Berkley Putnam , 1976 . The Stars My Destination ( 1957 ) , New York : Vintage Books , 1998 . Cortiel , Jeanne , Russ / Feminism / Science Demand My Writing : Joanna Fiction , Liverpool : Liverpool ...
... Light Fantastic , New York : Berkley Putnam , 1976 . The Stars My Destination ( 1957 ) , New York : Vintage Books , 1998 . Cortiel , Jeanne , Russ / Feminism / Science Demand My Writing : Joanna Fiction , Liverpool : Liverpool ...
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... light from the scene of your 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 ...
... light from the scene of your 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 ...
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... light, that might have reached somewhere, sometime, this time, next time, never. You'll get around to us in a couple of thousand years. We're a handful of persons in a metal bungalow: five women, three men, bedding, chemical toilet ...
... light, that might have reached somewhere, sometime, this time, next time, never. You'll get around to us in a couple of thousand years. We're a handful of persons in a metal bungalow: five women, three men, bedding, chemical toilet ...
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