Home / Joanna Russ Joanna Russ Blog Non-Fiction Notable Works of Non-Fiction Written by SFF Authors By James Davis Nicoll August 11, 2023 Comment number: 95 Books book recommendations Five SF Novels About Going on Vacation By James Davis Nicoll July 21, 2023 Comment number: 52 Blog Science Fiction Five SF Stories About Strangers Bearing Gifts By James Davis Nicoll June 14, 2022 Comment number: 15 Blog five books Five Sagas About Alternate Timelines and Parallel Universes By Charles Stross November 8, 2021 Comment number: 50 Blog Science Fiction Five Doomed Attempts at Planetary Colonization By James Davis Nicoll September 14, 2021 Comment number: 45 Blog worldbuilding Not All Worldbuilding Needs to Be Meticulous to Be Effective By Noah Berlatsky February 24, 2021 Comment number: 17 Blog Joanna Russ Dependency! Dependency! Joanna Russ’s “The Little Dirty Girl” By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys August 22, 2018 Comment number: 12 Books Science Fiction What’s With Sci-Fi’s Fixation on Single-Gendered Planets? By James Davis Nicoll July 25, 2018 Comment number: 80 Books QUILTBAG+ Speculative Classics QUILTBAG+ Speculative Classics: Un-suppressing Minority Writing By Bogi Takács April 10, 2018 Comment number: 27 Books The One Book The One Book That Made Me Believe In Female Heroes By Gwyneth Jones April 13, 2017 Comment number: 3 Books H.P. Lovecraft The Queen of Sheba Versus The Beautiful Menace From Mars: Joanna Russ’s “My Boat” By Anne M. Pillsworth, Ruthanna Emrys May 4, 2016 Comment number: 12 News On This Day Dear Joanna Russ: A Letter for an Inimitable Writer By Lee Mandelo February 22, 2016 Comment number: 9 1 2 3