• #140 Plucked from the past: Picnic on Paradise (1968) by Joanna Russ

  • Jan 16 2025
  • Length: 6 mins
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#140 Plucked from the past: Picnic on Paradise (1968) by Joanna Russ

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  • A feminist subversion of SF adventure on a snowbound world.

    Joanna Russ was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy best known for her strident feminist perspective. Her most acclaimed book is The Female Man from 1975, in which several women - each from their own parallel universes - confront misogyny and patriarchy.

    In Picnic on Paradise (1968), Russ' debut novel, a thief from ancient Tyre is recruited to save the day on a holiday planet plunged into a "commercial war".

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