The one I loved was (mostest of all) was We Who Are About To... Eight people crash land on an uninhabited planet and start the serious business of survival (we must plant plants, we must make babies, we must set out west in covered spaceships) and there's this one woman who just goes "Um, isn't this a little bit silly" Science fiction tropes get lovingly and firmly stood on their heads.
And On Strike Against God isn't science fiction but a wonderful book about coming out. Not so much coming out, more hatching. And her essays - I had never heard of Kirk/Spock slash before Joanna Russ told me about it and very seriously (at least 20 years before anyone else) analysed both it and her own reaction. Wonderful wonderful writer.
I think the one that stands out for me, aside from Female Man of course, is And Chaos Died. I need to re-read it. Her style is so dense and yet broken out, I always feel like I'm missing something. But somehow, in my memory, that book exists as an anti-dote for Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, which I hated.
That's not only one I don't have, but one I haven't heard of. And (while checking out amazon) I've also realised that it's probably about 20 years since I read Zanzibar Cat, so time to go shopping. Ta very much.
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The one I loved was (mostest of all) was We Who Are About To... Eight people crash land on an uninhabited planet and start the serious business of survival (we must plant plants, we must make babies, we must set out west in covered spaceships) and there's this one woman who just goes "Um, isn't this a little bit silly" Science fiction tropes get lovingly and firmly stood on their heads.
And On Strike Against God isn't science fiction but a wonderful book about coming out. Not so much coming out, more hatching. And her essays - I had never heard of Kirk/Spock slash before Joanna Russ told me about it and very seriously (at least 20 years before anyone else) analysed both it and her own reaction. Wonderful wonderful writer.
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