We Who Are About To...
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
28 November 2016
Summary
A classic feminist science fiction about a group of strangers stranded at the end of the universe…
“Civilization must be preserved,” says he. “Civilization’s doing fine,” I said. “We just don’t happen to be where it is.”
After an accident destroys their starship and leaves them stranded on an uncharted but apparently hospitable planet - crewless, with few supplies and without tools - the five female and three male passengers debate how to survive. When it is decided that it is…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241253748 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241253748 |
| Author: | Joanna Russ |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 28 November 2016 |
| Weight: | 96g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Worlds |
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Critics Review
Russ never kept politics out of anywhere. That’s what makes her essential today – Naomi Alderman
Russ offers a gallery of some of the most interesting female protagonists… women who are rarely victims and sometimes even victors, but always engaged sharply and perceptively with their fate – Marge Piercy, author of Woman on the Edge of Time
Joanna Russ at her merciless, irreverent, hilarious, cold-hearted best is one of the most serious and satisfying writers of science fiction and fantasy * The Washington Post *
A most entertaining and challenging science fiction novelist… Provocative, uncompromising, brave * Guardian *
We Who Are About To … does what the best SF ought to do, using speculation to unsettle and challenge, to strip away tired preconceptions and ask us to see our own world anew – Hari Kunzru
Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ was born in 1937 in New York City. She was an academic and feminist who authored numerous works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women’s Writing. She is best known for her 1975 satirical utopian novel The Female Man; We Who Are About To was her fourth novel, originally published in 1977. Joanna Russ died in 2011 and her work is still widely taught on literature courses throughout the English speaking world.
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