{"product_id":"joanna-russ-novels-stories-loa-373-the-female-man-we-who-are-about-to-on-strike-against-god-the-complet-e-alyx-stories-other-stor-9781598537536","title":"Joanna Russ: Novels \u0026 Stories (Loa #373): The Female Man \/ We Who Are about to . . . \/ On Strike Against God \/ The Complet E Alyx Stories \/ Other Stor","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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA LGBTQIA+ pioneer joins the Library of America series \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Library of America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781598537536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Joanna Russ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43075514368181,"sku":"9781598537536","price":31.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0c9205a7-b94c-4d01-8b11-6e587cdb8aa1.jpg?v=1691467746","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/joanna-russ-novels-stories-loa-373-the-female-man-we-who-are-about-to-on-strike-against-god-the-complet-e-alyx-stories-other-stor-9781598537536","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}