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We Who Are About To...

We Who Are About To...

by Joanna Russ
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/02/2005

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A multi-dimensional explosion hurls the starship's few passengers across the galaxies and onto an uncharted barren planet. 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 standed 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 potentially lethal alien environment. It is characteristic of Russ's genius that such a readable novel is also one of her most intellectually intricate. This Wesleyan edition includes a foreword by Samuel R. Delany, a novelist living in New York who has won both Hugo and Nebula awards.
ISBN:
9780819567598
9780819567598
Category:
Science fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-02-2005
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wesleyan University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
144
Dimensions (mm):
216x140x9mm
Weight:
0.18kg
Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ was born in New York City and is regarded as one of the leading feminist science fiction writers.

She died in 2011.

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