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We Who Are About To...
  • Published: 28 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241253748
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $32.99
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We Who Are About To...

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28 Nov 2016
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16 Feb 2017
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A classic feminist science fiction about a group of strangers stranded at the end of the universe...

'Civilization must be preserved,' says he.
'Civilization's doing fine,' I said. 'We just don't happen to be where it is.\"

After an accident destroys their starship and leaves them stranded on an uncharted but apparently hospitable planet – crewless, with few supplies and without tools – the five female and three male passengers debate how to survive. When it is decided that it is their human duty to colonize and populate their new home, one woman resists. But on an alien world where survival dictates conformity, her rebellion is seen as the worst kind of betrayal . . .

Joanna Russ offers an electrifying, original and unflinching exploration of individual freedom, power, and the reality of living in the 'hostile environment'.
  • Published: 28 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241253748
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $32.99
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Praise for We Who Are About To...

Russ offers a gallery of some of the most interesting female protagonists... women who are rarely victims and sometimes even victors, but always engaged sharply and perceptively with their fate

Marge Piercy, author of Woman on the Edge of Time

Joanna Russ at her merciless, irreverent, hilarious, cold-hearted best is one of the most serious and satisfying writers of science fiction and fantasy

The Washington Post

A most entertaining and challenging science fiction novelist... Provocative, uncompromising, brave

Guardian

Russ never kept politics out of anywhere. That’s what makes her essential today

Naomi Alderman

We Who Are About To . . . does what the best SF ought to do, using speculation to unsettle and challenge, to strip away tired preconceptions and ask us to see our own world anew

Hari Kunzru