Joanna Russ: Novels & Stories (Loa #373)

Joanna Russ (1937-2011) is often described, along with Philip K. Dick and Ursula K. Le Guin, as one of the breakout stars of science fiction's "new wave" of the 1960s and 1970s. She taught at several prestigious universities and published influential feminist literary criticism alongside her fiction. In 1995, Russ received retrospective Tiptree Awards (for the best explorations of sex and gender in speculative fiction) for "When It Changed" and The Female Man. She was posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame and named a Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master. Nicole Rudick, a former editor of The Paris Review, has written on art, literature, and comics for the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Artforum. Her most recent book is What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)biography of Niki de Saint Phalle.