66210X1 First Edition. Wesleyan University Press: 2009. 304 pages. Softcover. Brand new book. A multifaceted look at one of science fiction and feminism's most original voices. Joanna Russ, a feminist writer best known for The Female Man (1975, has produced a fierce, intense body of fiction and essays whose influence has been wide-ranging and complex. Her many publications include How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983, and she has won both of science fiction's most prestigious awards, the Nebula and the Hugo. The essays in this volume examine every aspect of Russ's body of work and provide a critical assessment that is long overdue. The first part of the book, "Criticism and Community," gives readers a context for and overview of Russ's works, and includes discussions of Russ's role in the creation of a feminist science fiction tradition. The second part, "Fiction," offers detailed analyses of some of Russ's writing. Contributors include: Andrew M. Butler, Brian Charles Clark, Samuel R. Delany, Edward James , Sandra Lindow, Keridwen Luis, Paul March-Russell, Helen Merrick, Dianne Newell, Graham Sleight, JenŽa Tallentire, Jason Vest, Sherryl Vint, Pat Wheeler, Tess Williams, Gary K. Wolfe, and Lisa Yaszek. "The variety of scholarship in On Joanna Russ is stupendousÑI enjoyed every minute, was excited and energized and, most importantly, want to go re-read all of Russ with these essays in mind."ÑRobin Anne Reid, professor of literature and languages, Texas A&M University - Commerce "Joanna Russ is a major figure in the 'New Wave' in science fiction. These essays do a great job of revisiting the importance of Russ's all-too-often-overlooked body of work."ÑJoan Gordon, coeditor of Science Fiction Studies Farah Mendelsohn teaches at Middlesex University, London. She is the author of Rhetorics of Fantasy (2008 and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (2006, winner of a Hugo Award. $85.00USD
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