This author is brilliant. Her classic book The Female Man seems to go in and out of print. The last edition I saw for sale new was an English import.
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Re: Joanna Russ
Tue, January 25, 2005 - 11:32 AMI think the 2000 Beacon edition of 'The Female Man' is still available; at least Amazon still carries it and displays it as an in-print book. Some of her theoretical and critical writing is still in print as well, but very little if any of her other fiction.
This is really a shame because, for me anyway, Russ is one of the most interesting and experimental sci-fi writers of her generation, ranking with Delany as an author who often paired radical social ideals with challenging narrative structures. A little too challlenging for most readers perhaps...?
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Re: Joanna Russ
Tue, January 25, 2005 - 4:11 PMProbably too challenging for Patriarchy. She is too smart. I often wonder about these backlists and if they are not "blacklists" instead. I cannot understand why her work would not sell today.
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Re: Joanna Russ
Wed, January 26, 2005 - 8:18 AMI've found it easy enough to collect used copies of Russ from thrift-store shelves. She's also been anthologized a lot. -
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Re: Joanna Russ
Wed, January 26, 2005 - 3:26 PMIn urban areas like San Francisco probably easier than say Billings, Montana.
However I am happy to say that Stacey's books in downtown SF does have one copy of the Female Man on their shelf from Beacon press. Nothing else by her though-unless it is in one of the anthologies.
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