Gwyneth Jones is a science fiction and fantasy author and critic. Her fiction includes Divine Endurance and the Aleutian Trilogy. Her nonfiction includes Deconstructing the Starships: Essays and Reviews and Imagination/Space: Essays and Talks on Fiction, Feminism, Technology, and Politics. Jones is the winner of two World Fantasy Awards and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the SFRA Pilgrim award for lifetime achievement in SF criticism.
A PopMatters Best Non-Fiction Book of 2019
A Locus 2019 Recommended Read
Finalist, non-fiction category 2020 Locus Awards, 2020
"The primary and secondary bibliographies, along with the
interviews and the through coverage of Russ's work that Jones
offers make this volume one that libraries public, academic, and
personal should possess, especially if they have an interest in
feminist literature and/or science fiction. . . . This book is a
fine tool for continuing Joanna Russ's legacy." --Science Fiction
Studies
"In Joanna Russ,” a new survey of Russ’s work, the writer and
critic Gwyneth Jones provides a helpful window into Russ’s early
life." --New Yorker
"An important and compact new study. . . Russ was an unfairly
neglected writer, and Jones’ introduction is a great place to start
learning about her." --Seattle Times
"Essential reading for those interested in the history and
evolution of sci-fi as a genre, and in the continued fight for
diversity, inclusion, and visibility of sci-fi and pop culture more
broadly." --Popmatters
"It is time [Russ],was remembered and honored for her gallant,
elegant and witty contribution." --Times Literary Supplement
"This overview would be a particularly good introduction for
undergraduates (or any interested reader) looking for a way into
Russ’s career and into the gender-in-SF issues of her time."
--Locus
"A rigorous biography of Russ’s mind. . . . Every writer must dream
of someday having a reader who reads their work the way Gwyneth
Jones reads Joanna Russ." --Fantasy & Science Fiction
"Gwyneth Jones's study of Russ's life and work is important
reading for anyone interested in feminism, science fiction, or
terrific writing. With insight and warmth, she reveals Russ to us
as a brilliant, impossible person and as a groundbreaking,
uncompromising writer."--Julie Phillips, author of James Tiptree,
Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
"Jones’s concise, thorough survey successfully traces the tensions
and confluences between Russ’s various fields of work. Her
positions as genre writer, academic, and feminist are in flux, in
conversation; by creating illustrative juxtapositions within a
chronological framework as well as integrating analysis with
biographical detail, Jones offers insight and clarity into the
difficulties that drove Russ’s career trajectory and eventual
retirement from the SF field."--Brit Mandelo, author of We Wuz
Pushed: On Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-Telling
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