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 Russs work, the writer and critic Gwyneth Jones provides a helpful window into Russs 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 Russs career and into the gender-in-SF issues of her time." --Locus "A rigorous biography of Russs 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
"Joness concise, thorough survey successfully traces the tensions and confluences between Russs 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 Russs career trajectory and eventual retirement from the SF field."--Brit Mandelo, author of We Wuz Pushed: On Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-Telling
