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We Who Are About To...
  • Published: 16 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241976548
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144
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We Who Are About To...

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Paperback
28 Nov 2016
EBook
16 Feb 2017
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Penguin Worlds introduces a science fiction classic about a group of strangers stranded at the end of the universe...

An explosion in space, a starship stranded, a group of strangers alone at the barren edge of the universe.

Facing almost-certain death, the human survivors of a deep-space crash are determined to ignore the odds and colonize an inhospitable planet, recreating a civilization like the one they have lost forever. Only one woman rejects this path, choosing instead a daring and desperate alternative: to practice the art of dying. But her fellow passengers require her reproductive skills for their survival plan, and they are prepared to impose their regime by force if necessary... We Who Are About To offers an electrifying and deeply challenging exploration of individual freedom, collective tyranny, and our most primitive will to live.
  • Published: 16 February 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241976548
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 144
Categories:

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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