I’ve started to read the Joanna Russ book, but I have decided not to say too much about it at this point because it occurs to me that I really should post the review on Ada Lovelace Day. I’m going to do another post as well, but it seems like a good day to talk about Russ. Perhaps a few of you could do so too.

By the way, Ada made The Guardian yesterday – there is an interview with Suw Charmin-Anderson on their Tech Weekly podcast.

In the meantime I just want to say how much I like Lisa Yaszek’s work. Young revolutionaries are always contemptuous of their forbears who lived in less liberal times and were not able to be as open about their activism. Russ was no exception. The rediscover of “housewife heroine” SF that Yaszek is doing (including, ironically, some early stories by Russ herself) not only gives belated recognition to some fine early women SF writers but also helps remind us that women and men are not the same, and that just because some types of female behavior have been traditionally derided and undervalued by men that doesn’t mean that they are actually without worth.