{"product_id":"joanna-russ-novels-stories-loa-373","title":"Joanna Russ: Novels \u0026 Stories (LOA #373) - The Female Man \/ We Who Are About To . . . \/ On Strike Against God \/ The Complete Alyx Stories \/ Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eRediscover one of America’s best SF writers in a definitive hardcover edition gathering all her finest work together for the first time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA LGBTQIA+ pioneer joins the Library of America series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn incandescent stylist with a dark sense of humor and a provocative feminist edge, Joanna Russ upended every genre in which she worked. The essential novels and stories gathered in this definitive Library of America edition make a case for Russ not only as an astonishing writer of speculative fiction, but, in the words of Samuel Delany, “one of the finest––and most necessary––writers of American fiction” period. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is her now-classic novel \u003cb\u003eThe Female Man\u003c\/b\u003e (1975), in which four remarkable women––Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael––traverse alternate histories and parallel worlds (including the brilliantly imagined all-female utopia, Whileaway) in a multi-voiced, multidimensional voyage that continues to alter readers’ sense of gender and reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe Who Are About To … \u003c\/b\u003e(1977), recounting the fate of a misfit band of space-tourists stranded on an alien world, challenges “golden age” expectations about civilization, in what becomes an allegorical thriller.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eOn Strike Against God\u003c\/b\u003e (1980), her incisive, darkly comic, and ultimately joyous final novel, Russ returns to Earth to explore LGBTQIA+ and feminist themes and the unfamiliar territory of “coming out” and lesbian romance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuss’s \u003cb\u003e“Complete Alyx Stories”\u003c\/b\u003e––which feature her inimitably sly, resilient, and stone-cold heroine Alyx, who is plucked from a life of petty crime in ancient Phoenicia to serve as adventurer-for-hire for the Trans-Temporal Authority, and which reinvent the sword and sorcery genre for a postmodern era––are presented in their entirety here for the first time, and newly restored to print.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso included are her unforgettable tales “When It Changed” and “Souls,” the former a 1973 Nebula Award winner and the latter the recipient of the 1983 Hugo and Locus Awards.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51167246778656,"sku":"9781598537536","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781598537536.jpg?v=1769726857","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/joanna-russ-novels-stories-loa-373","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}