Extra (ordinary) people /
Five elegant stories from Hugo & Nebula award-winning author Joanna Russ, in the form of a history lesson to a child of the future. A medieval abbess defends her community against Viking invasion; a young girl sails on a 19th-century clipper bound for America with a guardian who is not what ...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
[1984]
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| Summary: | Five elegant stories from Hugo & Nebula award-winning author Joanna Russ, in the form of a history lesson to a child of the future. A medieval abbess defends her community against Viking invasion; a young girl sails on a 19th-century clipper bound for America with a guardian who is not what 'he' seems; a time traveller disguises herself as a male god on an errand of mercy in a feudal past; an author evokes the plot of a Gothic romance between two women. The stories are as much about the nature of sf as they are about the imagined & fantastical worlds they describe. Russ once more draws on her talent for vivid characterisation to involve us in worlds not our own, exploring gender & power relationships in past & future to illuminate our own time. |
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| Physical Description: | 160 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0312278063 9780312278069 |