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"To Write Like a Woman is a rare example of a feminist tackling science fictuion using postmodern theory, which makes for a much more sophisticated and nuanced appraisal than the usual fare." —Passion"Russ' essays are witty and insightful. An excellent book for any writer or reader." —Feminist Bookstore News"In her new book of essays . . . Russ continues to debunk and demand, edify and entertain. . . . Appreciative of surface aesthetics, she continually delves deeper than most critics, yet in terms so simple and accessible that her essays read like lively, angry, humorous dialogues conducted face-to-face with the author. Russ is the antithesis of the distant critic in her ivory tower." —Paul Di Filippo, The Washington Post Book World" . . . 20 years of the author's feisty reports from the front lines of literature." —The San Francisco Review of Books"This is a book of imaginative and provoking essays, but you should read it for the sheer fun of it." —The Women's Review of Books"Collects more than two decades of criticism by Joanna Russ, one of the most perceptive, forthright and eloquent feminist commentators around." —Feminist Bookstore News" . . . a super book. . . .This is a book that, for once, really will appeal to readers of all kinds." —Utopian Studies"If you enjoy science fiction, this is definitely a book that you'll want to talk about. I found myself sneaking a few pages at times when I really didn't have time to read." —Jan Catano, AtlantisClassic essays on science fiction and feminism by Nebula and Hugo award-winning Joanna Russ. Here she ranges from a consideration of the aesthetic of science fiction to a reading of the lesbian identity of Willa Cather. To Write Like a Woman includes essays on horror stories and the supernatural, feminist utopias, popular literature for women (the "modern gothic"), and the feminist education of graduate students in English.

In 1959, at the age of 22, Joanna Russ published her first science fiction story, “Nor Custom Stale,” in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. In the forty-five years since, Russ has continued to write some of the most popular, creative, and important novels and stories in science fiction. She was a central figure, along with contemporaries Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree, in revolutionizing science fiction in the 1960s and 1970s, and her 1970 novel The Female Man is widely regarded as one of the most successful and influential depictions of a feminist utopia in the entire genre. The Country You Have Never Seen gathers Joanna Russ’s most important essays and reviews, revealing the vital part she played over the years in the never-ending conversation among writers and fans about the roles, boundaries, and potential of science fiction. Spanning her entire career, the collection shines a light on Russ’s role in the development of new wave science fiction and feminist science fiction, while at the same time providing fascinating insight into her own development as a writer.

Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle-and not so subtle-strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers with its powerful feminist critique.“What is it going to take to break apart these rigidities? Russ’s book is a formidable attempt. It is angry without being self-righteous, it is thorough without being exhausting, and it is serious without being devoid of a sense of humor. But it was published over thirty years ago, in 1983, and there’s not an enormous difference between the world she describes and the world we inhabit.”-Jessa Crispin, from the foreword“A book of the most profound and original clarity. Like all clear-sighted people who look and see what has been much mystified and much lied about, Russ is quite excitingly subversive. The study of literature should never be the same again.”-Marge Piercy“Joanna Russ is a brilliant writer, a writer of real moral passion and high wit.”-Adrienne Rich

Penguin reissues a work of classic science fiction from the revolutionary author of The Female Man - with a new introduction from Hari KunzruAn explosion in space, a starship stranded at the end of the universe, a group of strangers alone in a barren, alien wilderness. Facing almost certain death, the human survivors of a deep-space crash are determined to ignore the odds and colonize an inhospitable planet, recreating a civilization like the one they have lost forever. Only one woman rejects this path, choosing instead a daring and desperate alternative: to practice the art of dying. But her fellow passengers require her reproductive skills for their survival plan, and they are prepared to impose their regime by force if necessary...Joanna Russ offers an electrifying, original and challenging exploration of individual freedom, power, and our most primitive will to live.We Who Are About To is part of the Penguin Worlds classic science fiction series

A landmark book in the fields of science fiction and feminism.Four women living in parallel worlds, each with a different gender landscape. When they begin to travel to each other's worlds each woman's preconceptions on gender and what it means to be a woman are challenged.Acclaimed as one of the essential works of science fiction and an influence on William Gibson, THE FEMALE MAN takes a look at gender roles in society and remains a work of great power.

A multi-dimensional explosion hurls the starship's few passengers across the galaxies and onto an uncharted barren tundra. With no technical skills and scant supplies, the survivors face a bleak end in an alien world. One brave woman holds the daring answer, but it is the most desperate one possible.Elegant and electric, We Who Are About To... brings us face to face with our basic assumptions about our will to live. While most of the stranded tourists decide to defy the odds and insist on colonizing the planet and creating life, the narrator decides to practice the art of dying. When she is threatened with compulsory reproduction, she defends herself with lethal force. Originally published in 1977, this is one of the most subtle, complex, and exciting science fiction novels ever written about the attempt to survive a hostile alien environment. It is characteristic of Russ's genius that such a readable novel is also one of her most intellectually intricate.

Joanna. Jeannine. Janet. Jael.Four women, four worlds, four vastly different societies.When these women are suddenly able to communicate with each other through the boundaries of dimensions, they are confronted with what could have been if one thing changed in history. And they find themselves looking at their own worlds with new eyes.Acclaimed as one of the essential works of science fiction, The Female Man examines gender roles in society and remains a work of great power. It won a retrospective James Tiptree Jr. Award and a 2002 Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame award.'A stunning book, a work to be read with great respect. It's also screamingly funny' - San Francisco Review of Books'She was brilliant in a way that couldn't be denied'- The New Yorker'It's a gorgeous book, frankly, and well worth any reader's time' - Tor.comWelcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction

This Nebula Award–nominated “work of awesome originality” (Robert Silverberg) is a mind-blowing exploration of telepathy and power on an Earth-like planet.   Earthman Jai Vedh was on a star voyage when his ship blew up, leaving him stranded on an uncharted Earth-like planet. In this strange new land, he’s amazed to discover a colony of humans who lost contact with their home world centuries before. They’ve developed telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation—and structured a sophisticated social system out of these abilities.   Under the tutelage of a female mentor named Evne, Jai Vedh begins to develop his own mental powers. But when an unexpected rescue arrives, the Earth he returns to is nothing like he remembered . . .   Wildly imaginative, wholly original, and boldly experimental in form, And Chaos Died “is a spectacular experience to undergo” (Samuel R. Delany).      

Four alternate selves from radically different realities come together in this “dazzling” and “trailblazing work” (The Washington Post).   Widely acknowledged as Joanna Russ’s masterpiece, The Female Man is the suspenseful, surprising, darkly witty, and boldly subversive chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael—all living in parallel worlds—meet. Librarian Jeannine is waiting for marriage in a past where the Depression never ended, Janet lives on a utopian Earth with an all-female population, Joanna is a feminist in the 1970s, and Jael is a warrior with claws and teeth on an Earth where male and female societies are at war with each other. When the four women begin traveling to one another’s worlds, their preconceptions on gender and identity are forever challenged.   With “palpable anger . . . leavened by wit and humor” (The New York Times), Russ both employs and upends genre conventions to deliver a wickedly satiric and exhilarating version of when worlds collide and women get woke.  This ebook includes the Nebula Award–winning bonus short story “When It Changed,” set in the world of The Female Man.    

A new kind of sci-fi heroine, the tough-as-nails Alyx, is introduced in this Nebula Award finalist that Poul Anderson called an “extraordinary” novel.   Set in a semi-utopian world, Joanna Russ’s groundbreaking debut novel is the story of Alyx, a female soldier, survival guide, and agent of the Trans-Temporal Authority. Displaced in time from her ancient Greece, Alyx is tasked with safely leading a group of pampered human vacationers—including some unconventional nuns and a detached teenager known as the Machine—across an uninhabited scenic terrain to a relief station. But the journey proves more challenging than anticipated as they confront one another’s failings; the physical dangers of an icy, hostile wilderness; and Alyx’s own personal demons.   Long before the kick-ass heroines of current science fiction and fantasy, Russ unapologetically introduced readers to a short, strong, middle-aged (for her world/time) woman of twenty-six who knows how to survive but struggles with the emotional nuances of her charges and the confusion of her own mixed feelings. With iconic characters like Alyx, Russ “four decades ago helped deliver science fiction into the hands of the most alien creatures the genre had yet seen—women . . . [and] helped inaugurate the now flourishing tradition of feminist science fiction” (The New York Times).  

Mit der wagemutigen, widerborstigen Abenteurerin Alyx schuf Joanna Russ ein Gegenbild zu den dominanten Heldenfiguren ihrer Zeit: In den vorliegenden fünf Erzählungen und dem Kurzroman »Picknick auf Paradies« kämpft eine Frau für ein selbstbestimmtes Dasein, ohne sich männlichem Rollenverhalten anzudienen. Alyx verschlägt es in antike Städte und auf ferne Planeten, aber eines bleibt stets gleich: Sie muss sich den Zumutungen entgegenstellen, mit denen voreingenommene Menschen und autoritäre Gesellschaftsformen sie konfrontieren. Band 1 der Werkausgabe enthält weiterhin eine repräsentative Auswahl von Essays und Rezensionen aus der ersten Schaffensphase von Joanna Russ. – Herausgegeben und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Jeanne Cortiel, Professorin für Amerikanistik an der Universität Bayreuth und Autorin der Monografie »Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ, Feminism, Science Fiction«.

Jeannine lebt in New York City – aber nicht in einer Welt, wie wir sie kennen: Hier hat die Weltwirtschaftskrise nie aufgehört und der Zweite Weltkrieg nie stattgefunden. Auch eine feministische Bewegung ist kaum vorstellbar. Da taucht plötzlich, mitten auf der Straße, eine geheimnisvolle Frau auf: Janet Everson hat es von dem futuristischen Planeten Whileaway, wo alle Männer vor 800 Jahren von einer Seuche dahingerafft wurden, hierher verschlagen. Janet entführt Jeannine auf eine Reise durch Raum und Zeit, auf Welten, wo sich die Beziehungen zwischen den Geschlechtern grundlegend von allem unterscheiden, was Jeannine je zu träumen wagte. Der zweite Band der Werkausgabe von Joanna Russ enthält ihr avantgardistisches Meisterwerk ›Der weibliche Mann‹, einen Essay, in dem sie sich mit dem Science-Fiction-Genre auseinandersetzt, sowie eine Auswahl ihrer Rezensionen.

Ein Raumschiff strandet auf einem fernen Planeten, buchstablich am Ende des Universums. Die kleine Gruppe von Frauen und Mannern findet sich in einer lebensfeindlichen Einode wieder und muss versuchen, auch nur die ersten Tage gemeinsam zu uberstehen. Als die Manner stattdessen hochfliegende Plane schmieden, wie diese Welt zu kolonisieren sei, kommt es zur Katastrophe ... Mit ihrem erstmals 1976 erschienenen Roman Die Todgeweihten verfasste Joanna Russ die definitive Antithese zu den Werken ihrer mannlichen Kollegen: Hier tragen keine strahlenden Helden die Zivilisation in die Weiten des Weltraums hinaus hier stellt sich eine Frau den existenziellen Fragen des Daseins. Bis zur letzten Konsequenz. Der abschlie ende Band unserer Russ-Werkausgabe enthalt au erdem zwei langere Erzahlungen, eine Folge reprasentativer Buchkritiken und einen Essay aus der dritten Schaffensphase der Autorin.

¿Quién no se ha preguntado por la existencia de otros mundos y ha imaginado cómo descubrirlos? Escritos en la primera mitad del siglo XX, los cuentos de Judith Merril, Zenna Henderson, Joanna Russ, Doris Pitkin Buck, Wilmar H. Shiras, C. L. Moore y Mildred Clingerman muestran posibles vías para llegar a ellos. Ya sea a través de viajes que desafían el valor de sus protagonistas, la convergencia de dimensiones en la cotidianidad del hogar, las mutaciones genéticas o los pueblos escondidos, estas escritoras nos sugieren que hay universos distintos que se tocan, que multiplican el presente pero también las posibilidades del futuro.   Mundos alternos   es el primer tomo de   ¡El futuro es mujer!  , una antología editada por la académica Lisa Yaszek que reúne cuentos de veinticinco escritoras estadounidenses que encontraron en la ciencia ficción un espacio de libertad para jugar con la sorpresa y el asombro, pero también para experimentar, disentir y confrontar temas sociales y políticos de su presente. A lo largo de cuatro décadas, estas autoras no solo contribuyeron a edificar un género literario desde sus cimientos sino que lo transformaron al desarrollar personajes complejos, replantear la relación entre hombres y mujeres, humanos y alienígenas, y preguntarse cómo la ciencia y la tecnología podrían reconfigurar el género, el sexo, la maternidad y la supervivencia posibilitando nuevas formas de vivir. Dividida en tres tomos temáticos que reagrupan la antología de Yaszek, Almadía presenta esta colección por primera vez en lengua castellana gracias a la traducción del colectivo Falsos Amigos.

En ''Cómo acabar con la escritura de las mujeres'', coeditado entre Editorial Barrett y Editorial Dos Bigotes, la galardonada novelista y ensayista Joanna Russ expone las estrategias sutiles, y no tan sutiles, que la sociedad usa para ignorar, condenar o menospreciar a las mujeres que producen literatura. Publicada originalmente en 1983 y nunca traducida al español, esta obra, tan relevante hoy como entonces, ha motivado a generaciones de lectores con su poderosa crítica feminista. Con un tono sarcástico e irreverente, Russ examina las fuerzas que sistemáticamente impiden un amplio reconocimiento del trabajo creativo de las mujeres.La autora se centra en la literatura escrita en inglés a la hora de analizar los once patrones que se repiten para acabar con la escritura de las mujeres, y es por eso que encontramos nombres de escritoras clásicas y contemporáneas, como las hermanas Brontë, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Tillie Olsen, Katherine Mansfield, Rebecca Harding Davis, Anaïs Nin, Sara Teasdale, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Margaret Cavendish, Mary Shelley, Mary Hogarth, Mary McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Kate Millet, Charlotte Mew, Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, Dorothy Richardson, Alice Sheldon, Christina Rossetti, Amy Lowell, Aphra Behn, Anne Finch, Virginia Woolf, Hilda Doolittle, Marianne Moore, Jane Austen o Jane Anger, entre muchas otras. Si algunas ni siquiera os suenan, Russ os explica por qué.Exhaustiva sin ser aburrida y seria sin carecer de sentido del humor, esta edición cuenta con un nuevo prólogo de Jessa Crispin, autora de ''Por qué no soy feminista: un manifiesto feminista''."Muestra indignación sin ser pretencioso, es exhaustivo sin ser aburrido y es serio sin carecer de sentido del humor. Aunque se publicó hace treinta y cinco años no describe un mundo muy diferente al que habitamos en la actualidad", del prólogo de Jessa Crispin