<div>Four alternate selves from radically different realities come together in this &ldquo;dazzling&rdquo; and &ldquo;trailblazing work&rdquo; (The Washington Post). Widely acknowledged as Joanna Russ&rsquo;s masterpiece, The Female Man is the suspenseful, surprising, darkly witty, and boldly subversive chronicle of what happens when Jeannine, Janet, Joanna, and Jael&mdash;all living in parallel worlds&mdash;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&rsquo;s worlds, their preconceptions on gender and identity are forever challenged. With &ldquo;palpable anger . . . leavened by wit and humor&rdquo; (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&ndash;winning bonus short story &ldquo;When It Changed,&rdquo; set in the world of The Female Man. </div>

The Female Man

<div>A new kind of sci-fi heroine, the tough-as-nails Alyx, is introduced in this Nebula Award finalist that Poul Anderson called an &ldquo;extraordinary&rdquo; novel. Set in a semi-utopian world, Joanna Russ&rsquo;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&mdash;including some unconventional nuns and a detached teenager known as the Machine&mdash;across an uninhabited scenic terrain to a relief station. But the journey proves more challenging than anticipated as they confront one another&rsquo;s failings; the physical dangers of an icy, hostile wilderness; and Alyx&rsquo;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 &ldquo;four decades ago helped deliver science fiction into the hands of the most alien creatures the genre had yet seen&mdash;women . . . [and] helped inaugurate the now flourishing tradition of feminist science fiction&rdquo; (The New York Times). </div>

Picnic on Paradise

<div>One woman resists the demands of her fellow stranded survivors on an inhospitable planet in this &ldquo;elegant and electric . . . tour-de-force&rdquo; (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 harsh microcosm of a male-dominated society, with the females in the group relegated to the subservient position of baby-makers. One holdout wants to accept her fate realistically and prepare for death. But her desperate fellow survivors have no intention of honoring her individual right to choose. They&rsquo;re prepared to force her to submit to their plan for reproduction&mdash;which will prove to be a grave mistake . . . In Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author Joanna Russ&rsquo;s trailblazing body of work, &ldquo;her genius flows and convinces, shames and alarms&rdquo; (The Washington Post). </div>

We Who Are About To . . .

<div>A time-traveling heroine vows to rescue a subjugated girl from a fundamentalist society by any means necessary in this &ldquo;extraordinary novel&rdquo; (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&mdash;a mentor, father figure, friend, and lover. When the two are assigned to a repressive fundamentalist colony, they meet a twelve-year-old poet whose spirit is being crushed by the harsh restrictions of the society in which she lives. But Irene&rsquo;s attempt to rescue Zubeydeh doesn&rsquo;t go as planned&mdash;especially when Ernst proves unexpectedly resistant. To follow through on her commitment to the girl, Irene must undertake a drastic course of action&mdash;no matter the cost . . . In this fierce and moving speculative science fiction novel of female solidarity, Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author Joanna Russ &ldquo;digs deep into her anger and comes up with a rich and lively tale&rdquo; (Ms. Magazine). </div>

The Two of Them

<div>This Nebula Award&ndash;nominated &ldquo;work of awesome originality&rdquo; (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&rsquo;s amazed to discover a colony of humans who lost contact with their home world centuries before. They&rsquo;ve developed telepathy, telekinesis, and teleportation&mdash;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 &ldquo;is a spectacular experience to undergo&rdquo; (Samuel R. Delany). </div>

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And Chaos Died

<div>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&mdash;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 when Esther&rsquo;s feelings for her friend Jean take a turn from the platonic to the passionate, a new world opens up before her. Lost in a tumult of lust and happiness, she is unprepared for the patriarchal voices in her own head that threaten to derail her newfound freedom. Societal chaos would ensue if she were to follow her heart. It would open the floodgates to boys wearing pink! And girls, blue! How would the world survive? In On Strike Against God, Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author Joanna Russ turns from science fiction to 1970s small-town life, where desire simmers in the shadows, rebellion is taking root, and humor becomes a weapon against the status quo. &ldquo;An engrossing, darkly funny, and genre-defying classic. Russ&rsquo;s voice is raw and unfiltered here, delivering the same ironic humor, wry wit, and devastating insight into messy human conceptions of gender and sexuality that permeate her science fiction work. Perfect for fans of Kelly Link and Carmen Maria Machado.&rdquo; &mdash;Kameron Hurley, author of The Light Brigade &ldquo;A master of putting the truth in fiction, from her SF to her realist work, and On Strike Against God is filled to the brim with honesty.&rdquo; &mdash;Tor.com Praise for Joanna Russ &ldquo;She was brilliant in a way that couldn&rsquo;t be denied. . . . She was here to imagine, to invent wildly, and to undo the process, as one of her heroines puts it, of &lsquo;learning to despise one&rsquo;s self.&rsquo;&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker</div>

On Strike Against God

<div>This landmark feminist critique presents a &ldquo;brilliant and scathing&rdquo; survey of the forces that work against women who dare to write (Nicole Rudick, New York Review of Books). Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women&rsquo;s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle&mdash;and not so subtle&mdash;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. &ldquo;What is it going to take to break apart these rigidities? Russ&rsquo;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&rsquo;s not an enormous difference between the world she describes and the world we inhabit&rdquo; (Jessa Crispin, from the foreword). &ldquo;A book of the most profound and original clarity.&rdquo; &mdash;Marge Piercy &ldquo;Joanna Russ is a brilliant writer, a writer of real moral passion and high wit.&rdquo; &mdash;Adrienne Rich</div>

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Books By Joanna Russ (7 Books)

The Female Man

Picnic on Paradise

We Who Are About To . . .

The Two of Them

And Chaos Died

On Strike Against God

How to Suppress Women's Writing

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Picnic on Paradise

We Who Are About To . . .

The Two of Them

And Chaos Died

On Strike Against God

How to Suppress Women's Writing

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