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terriwindling.bsky.social Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · Aug 9
My morning coffee reading today, beside the stream that flows across Nattadon Hill. I loved the book when it first came out (way back in 1983), and I was curious to see how it holds up all these years later. Magnificently, as it turn out.
August 10, 2023 at 6:29 PM
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Libros recomendados para este #8M y necesarios todos los días del año:
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March 8, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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Book: The Zanzibar Cat (1983)
-standalone-
Author: Joanna Russ

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A wonderful artwork! I also love the calligraphy; has personality 👁️👄👁️
June 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To. . . was reviewed in The Anarchist Review of Books.

Russ's science fiction book brings us face to face with our basic assumptions about our will to live when a starship's passengers are hurled across the galaxies.

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March 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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#writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #joannaruss

The above quote is a warning against sweeping theories about human nature. Russ argues that people become vulnerable to manipulation when someone claims to
May 21, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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Allez, un petit article sur les romans de SF de "mondes sans hommes", où causent Marge Piercy, Joanna Russ, Pamela Sargent mais aussi avec des extraits de romans de SF mascus tout ringards.
#sf #joannaruss #margepiercy #utopie
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Des futurs sans les hommes – Camille LEBOULANGER
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April 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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On Strike Against God, by #JoannaRuss
Vitriolic, vulnerable, polemical and devastatingly funny, Russ’s uncompromising tour de force bristles with trenchant truth-telling that will make it a life-changing encounter for many readers. www.libraryjournal.com/review/on-st...
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Image of author Joanna Russ Cover of On Strike Against God, by Joanna Russ
November 16, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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#AceScienceFictionClassics #PhiliiJoseFarmerHardbackFirstEditions #JoannaRuss #MJohnHarrison #AvramDavidson #GertrudeFriedberg #SuzetteHadenElgin #DGCompton #JohnSladek #BaltimoreBookstore
February 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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“What we have to watch out for, to keep from being suckered in, is when someone purports to explain not one particular concrete thing, but the way in which a whole species works.”
--Joanna Russ (1937–2011)
As quoted in “Dream Makers Volume II” by Charles Platt
“What we have to watch out for, to keep from being suckered in, is when someone purports to explain not one particular concrete thing, but the way in which a whole species works.” --Joanna Russ (1937–2011) As quoted in “Dream Makers Volume II” by Charles Platt #writerslift #life #authors #love #art #coffee #diary #write #books #amwriting #quotes #joannaruss The above quote is a warning against sweeping theories about human nature. Russ argues that people become vulnerable to manipulation when someone claims to explain not just an individual behavior or event, but an entire category of beings all at once: men, women, nations, races, generations, “human nature” itself. Those grand explanations often sound elegant because they simplify complexity into something emotionally satisfying and easy to repeat. But simplicity is seductive. It can turn living, contradictory human beings into cardboard cutouts arranged for ideological convenience. What makes the quote especially sharp is how relevant it remains. Russ was writing decades before algorithm-fed outrage machines began mass-producing simplistic explanations for entire groups of people every hour of the day. Her point is not that patterns don’t exist, but that absolute explanations are dangerous because they flatten individuality and shut down critical thought. The moment someone says, “This is how an entire species works,” alarm bells should probably start ringing somewhere in the attic. Humanity is too messy, contradictory, emotional, irrational, creative, cruel, generous, and strange to fit comfortably inside one tidy sentence.
May 21, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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{abonnement}

« Elle était une des rares femmes dans le milieu SF américain des années 60 et 70, avec Ursula Le Guin, James Tiptree Jr. (alias Alice Sheldon) ou Octavia Butler. » www.liberation.fr/culture/livr...

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«Comment torpiller l’écriture des femmes» de Joanna Russ, écrire contre la censure mâle
Dans un ouvrage didactique et ironique, édité en français quarante ans après sa publication aux Etats-Unis, l’essayiste et romancière SF démonte les procédés d’effacement et de dénigrement séculaires ...
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September 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The postwoman brought a #BoxOBooks from the Library of America today:
- #JoannaRuss - Novels & Stories
- #DonDeLillo - Mao II & Underworld
I am not mentioning the box set that also arrived because it is a Xmas present and my wife reads my timeline.😏
The dust jacket has a picture of Joanna Russ in the upper right hand corner. Text: Joanna Russ (red, white and blue ribbon that wraps across entire dust jacket) Novels & Stories The Female Man We Who Are About To... On Strike Against God The Complete Alyx Stories Other Stories The dust jacket has a picture of Don DeLillo in the upper right hand corner. Text: Joanna Russ (red, white and blue ribbon that wraps across entire dust jacket) Mao II Underworld
October 31, 2023 at 1:17 AM
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Joanna Russ, Alyx, Boston / MA (USA) : Gregg Press, coll. Science Fiction Series, 1976, pp. 45-46.

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« Women do not always look in mirrors to admire themselves, popular belief to the contrary. Sometimes they look only to slip off their rings and their bracelets, to pluck off their earrings, to unfasten their necklaces, to drop their brilliant gowns, to take the color off their faces until the bones stand out like spears and to wipe the hues from around their eyes until they can look and look at merely naked human faces, at eyes no longer brilliant and aqueous like the eyes of angels or goddesses but hard and small as human eyes are, little control points that are always a little disquieting, always a little peculiar, because they are not meant to be looked at but to look, and then – with a shudder, a shiver – to recover themselves and once again to shimmer, to glow. »
December 12, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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Para colmo estoy leyendo este libro de #JoannaRuss, así que el cabreo solo se mantiene
December 13, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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The Library of America’s Story of the Week:
A Game of Vlet by Joanna Russ
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A Game of Vlet
In Joanna Russ's sword-and-sorcery tale, an assassin is caught breaking into a palace--and is challenged by a mysterious woman.
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October 8, 2023 at 10:44 PM
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♀️ Vi siete mai chiesti perché la scrittura maschile è considerata universale mentre quella femminile "di nicchia"? In questo importante saggio Joanna Russ, fantascientista e critica letteraria, ci spiega perché.

Ringrazio @enciclopedia.delle.donne per il supporto.

#joannaruss #criticaletteraria
Vietato scrivere, Joanna Russ
Titolo: Vietato scrivere, come soffocare la scrittura delle donneTitolo originale: How to suppress women's writingAutor*: Joanna Russ Editore: Enciclopedia delle donne Anno d'uscita: 2021 Traduttor*: Dafne Calgaro e Chiara Reali È da tempo che rifletto sui concetti di letteratura alta vs. letteratura bassa e di come la scrittura femminile spesso venga fatta rientrare nella seconda categoria.
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January 21, 2026 at 8:01 AM