Joanna Russ

Friendship with an equally remarkable, younger writer of science fiction, Joanna Russ , began with a fan letter in November 1972 from Tiptree, who claimed to be turning to women writers now. Their relationship...

With epigraphs from Conrad Aiken , Coleridge , and W. H. Davies , the author was clearly casting around for a poetic style. She veers between over-ripe romantic sentiment, plaintive expression of pain and loneliness...

Reckoning by numbers of reprints issued, Lud-in-the-Mist is HM 's most popular and enduring work. It was frequently re-issued between 1927 and 2000—especially, as Julia Briggs notes, since 1970, and the vogue for J. R. R. Tolkien

The Dangerous Visions series was already established. Other contributors to this volume included Joanna Russ , Josephine Saxton , James Tiptree, Jr (real name Alice Sheldon ), Ray Bradbury , and Kurt Vonnegut .

NA writes frequently in the Guardian. For instance, in an article on the televising of Margaret Atwood 's The Handmaid's Tale she provides a sketch of utopian and dystopian fiction by women, from Margaret Cavendish

This requirement proved extremely hard to meet, both for Tiptree and for other contributors, Joanna Russ and Ursula K. Le Guin . Tiptree corresponded about it with Russ.