A multidimensional explosion hurls a starship's few passengers across the galaxies & onto an uncharted barren tundra. With no technical skills & scant supplies, the survivors face a bleak end on an alien world. One brave woman holds the daring answer, but it is the most desperate one possible.Elegant & electric, We Who Are About To brings us face to face with our basic assumptions about our will to live. While most of the stranded tourists decide to defy the odds & insist on colonizing the planet & creating life, the narrator decides to practice the art of dying. When she's threatened with compulsory reproduction, she defends herself with lethal force. Originally published in 1977, this is one of the most subtle, complex & exciting sf novels ever written about the attempt to survive a hostile alien environment. It's characteristic of Russ's genius that such a readable novel is also one of her most intellectually intricate.

In 1959, at the age of 22, Joanna Russ published her first science fiction story, “Nor Custom Stale,” in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy. In the forty-five years since, Russ has continued to write some of the most popular, creative, and important novels and stories in science fiction. She was a central figure, along with contemporaries Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree, in revolutionizing science fiction in the 1960s and 1970s, and her 1970 novel The Female Man is widely regarded as one of the most successful and influential depictions of a feminist utopia in the entire genre. The Country You Have Never Seen gathers Joanna Russ’s most important essays and reviews, revealing the vital part she played over the years in the never-ending conversation among writers and fans about the roles, boundaries, and potential of science fiction. Spanning her entire career, the collection shines a light on Russ’s role in the development of new wave science fiction and feminist science fiction, while at the same time providing fascinating insight into her own development as a writer.

"A new critical edition of Joanna Russ's 1980 feminist novella On Strike Against God, supplemented with additional materials from Russ's archive. An introduction by Russ scholar Alec Pollak opens the edition, essays by contemporary writers Jeanne Thornton and Mary Anne Mohanraj grapple with Russ's enduring influence on feminist authors today, and an interview with Samuel R. Delany reflects on Delany's decades-long correspondence with Russ"--