Joanna Russ
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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...
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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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...
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A radical novel of love, gender, and being seen for who you are from the groundbreaking author of The Female Man.
Meet Esther, an English professor. Since her divorce more than a decade ago, she has lived in a kind of limbo-a sexless, cold, and self-contained existence. Though surrounded by so-called intellectuals, she is still boxed into life according to her gender, expected to defer to her male colleagues and mocked for her feminist beliefs.
But...
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English
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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.
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Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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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...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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A time-traveling heroine vows to rescue a subjugated girl from a fundamentalist society by any means necessary in this "extraordinary novel" (Marge Piercy). Rebelling against her repressive 1950s upbringing in a sexist America, Irene Waskiewicz flees in search of liberation and adventure as a time-and-space-traveling agent of the Trans-Temporal Authority. Her partner is Ernst Neumann -- a mentor, father figure, friend, and lover. When the two are...
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Español
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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...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"A collection of eleven stories from the New York Times -- bestselling author, including Nebula Award winner "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand." This brilliant collection of short fiction showcases renowned author Vonda N. McIntyre's sparkling lyricism, captivating vision, and advocacy of the different. The titular story is one of alienation and discrimination, as a woman transformed into an "ugly" lifeform -- a clumsy "digger" -- seeks to escape her...
10) Mundos alternos
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¿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...