“As hard and mean and fine as Flannery O’Connor… I wish that everyone would read Joanna Russ’s books.” —Dorothy Allison
“Joanna Russ offers a gallery of some of the most interesting female protagonists in current fiction, women who are rarely victims and sometimes even victors, but always engaged sharply and perceptively with their fate.” —Marge Piercy
“Joanna Russ is one of the pioneers and luminaries of women’s science fiction.” —Ms. Magazine
“Russ is a master crafter.” —The Washington Post Book World
The Female Man
“A stunning book, a work to be read with great respect. It’s also screamingly funny.” —Elizabeth A. Lynn
“A work of frightening power, but it is also a work of great fictional subtlety. … It should appeal to all intelligent people who look for exciting ideation, crackling dialogue, provocative fictional games-playing in their reading.” —Toronto Star
We Who Are About To …
“An important science fiction novel.” —The New York Times Book Review
“If this were a film it could be one of Peckinpah’s, violent, self-indulgent, obsessively contemptuous of humanity, nihilistic and fascinating.” —Publishers Weekly
Picnic on Paradise
“The depth, humanity and craft of this novel are as rich as the situation is stark.” —Samuel R. Delany
“Splendid!” —Theodore Sturgeon
The Two of Them
“Beyond questions of genre or gender, Joanna Russ is one of the best prose writers working in the English language today. The Two of Them is informed throughout by her intelligence, wit and imagination…by her vision of the pertinence and necessity of speculative fiction to feminists.” —Marilyn Hacker
“Fine science fiction, a challenging sexual polemic, and a wittily, economically constructed novel.” —Kirkus Reviews
And Chaos Died
“Many novels have dealt speculatively with psi-phenomena, describing the effects on people and society. Ms. Russ has taken it on herself to put the reader through the experience. She is wholly successful … spectacular.” —Samuel R. Delany
“A work of awesome originality.” —Robert Silverberg