A science fiction writer well know in both
Feminist Science Fiction and
New Wave Science Fiction. She was born 1937. She makes her home in
Tucson,
Arizona. Her work has been reprinted in
English and translated into
French,
German,
Italian,
Japanese,
Dutch,
Danish,
Spanish,
Catalán, and
Finnish.
Novels
Picnic on Paradise (1968)
And Chaos Died (1970)
The Female Man (1975)
We Who Are About To... (1977)
Kittatinny: A Tale of Magic (1978)
The Two of Them (1978)
Extra(Ordinary) People (1984)
The Zanzibar Cat (1984)
The Adventures of Alyx (1986)
Souls (1989)
Edited
Womanspace: Future And Fantasy Stories and Art by Women (1981)
Nonfiction
How to Suppress Women's Writing(1983)
Essays
Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perversts: Feminist Essays
(1985)
Anthologies containing stories by Joanna Russ
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology (1995)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
Visions of Wonder (1996)
Year's Best SF 2 (1997)
Tales of The Cthulhu Mythos (1999)
Short stories
My Dear Emily (1962)
"I Had Vacantly Crumpled It into My Pocket...But By God, Eliot, It Was a Photograph from Life!" (1964)
Mr Wilde's Second Chance (1966)
The Adventuress (1967)
I Gave Her Sack and Sherry (1967)
The Second Inquisition (1970) Nebula Award (nominee)
Window Dressing (1970)
Gleepsite (1971)
Poor Man, Beggar Man (1971) Nebula Award (nominee)
Nobody's Home (1972)
Useful Phrases for the Tourist (1972)
When It Changed (1972) Nebula Award
Hugo Award (nominee)
Innocence (1974)
An Old Fashioned Girl (1974)
Passages (1974)
Daddy's Girl (1975)
The Experimenter (1975)
A Few Things I Know About Whileaway (1975)
Towards an Aesthetic of Science Fiction (1975)
The Extraordinary Voyages of Amelie Bertrand (1979) Nebula Award (nominee)
The Little Dirty Girl (1982)
The Mystery of the Young Gentleman (1982) Nebula Award (nominee)
Souls (1982) Nebula Award (nominee)
Hugo Award
Invasion (1996)
My Boat
Awards
Nebula Award Best Novel nominee (1968) : Picnic on Paradise
Nebula Award Best Novellette nominee (1970) : The Second Inquisition
Nebula Award Best Novel nominee (1970) : And Chaos Died
Nebula Award Best Novellette nominee (1971) : Poor Man, Beggar Man
Nebula Award Best Short story winner (1972) : When It Changed
Hugo Award Best Short story nominee (1973) : When It Changed
Nebula Award Best Novel nominee (1975) : The Female Man
Nebula Award Best Short story nominee (1979) : The Extraordinary Voyages of Amelie Bertrand
Nebula Best Novella nominee (1982) : Souls
Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1982) : The Mystery of the Young Gentleman
Hugo Award Best Novella winner (1983) : Souls