Together with seven others she was on a space flight which suffered a catastrophic breakdown the passenger cabin was ejected and landed on the nearest 'tagged' planet the ship's computer could find - a place: 'where human life is supposed to be possible'. The narrator is a forty-two-year-old musicologist. Laconic and to the point, this opening also sets the tone and stage for this bleakest of narratives. If readers had any doubts about what the title refers to, the opening of We Who Are About To. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. (.) Still, what Russ is attempting seems well worth doing with all its flaws, this is an important science fiction novel.' - Gerald Jonas, The New York Times Book Review (.) Sentence by sentence, Russ's writing shows the strain of trying to keep her science-fictional and feminist allegiances in balance. If ever a book needed to be longer, this is it. One senses that she is impatient with her medium, that she has more to say, more subtle points to make, than she can possibly express with the written word. Unfortunately, she is not a very interesting writer. As always, she displays a most interesting mind.

'You do not have to share Russ's social politics to admire the uncompromising manner in which she sets up the situation and then resolves it.The Penguin edition comes with an Introductions by Naomi Alderman and Hari Kunzru.The Wesleyan University Press edition comes with an Introduction by Samuel R.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.

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