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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... novel . " -The New York Times Book Review " 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 ...
... novel . " -The New York Times Book Review " 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 ...
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... novel . " -Kirkus Reviews And Chaos Died " Many novels have dealt speculatively with psi - phenomena , describing the effects on people and society . Ms. Russ has taken it on herself to put the reader through the experience . She is ...
... novel . " -Kirkus Reviews And Chaos Died " Many novels have dealt speculatively with psi - phenomena , describing the effects on people and society . Ms. Russ has taken it on herself to put the reader through the experience . She is ...
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... novels - seven if we count her children's book Kittatinny : A Tale of Magic ( 1978 ) . Six are either science fiction or ... novel , a gay male , Jai Vhed , encounters a telepathic woman on a far world , who “ cures ” him of his sexual ...
... novels - seven if we count her children's book Kittatinny : A Tale of Magic ( 1978 ) . Six are either science fiction or ... novel , a gay male , Jai Vhed , encounters a telepathic woman on a far world , who “ cures ” him of his sexual ...
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... novels and tales, move over everything from music to mysticism, from the direct perception of matter at a distance (Chaos, 1970) to the problems of running a late-medieval convent besieged by Vikings (“Souls,” 1982). This is not to ...
... novels and tales, move over everything from music to mysticism, from the direct perception of matter at a distance (Chaos, 1970) to the problems of running a late-medieval convent besieged by Vikings (“Souls,” 1982). This is not to ...
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... novel contains such sentences as this delicious description of an interstellar starliner : " The Big One was obviously one of those epoxy - and - metal eggs produced by itself — the Platonic Idea of a pebble turned inside out , born of ...
... novel contains such sentences as this delicious description of an interstellar starliner : " The Big One was obviously one of those epoxy - and - metal eggs produced by itself — the Platonic Idea of a pebble turned inside out , born of ...
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