Jones's concise, thorough survey successfully traces the tensions and confluences between Russ's various fields of work. Her positions as genre writer, academic, and feminist are in flux, in conversation; by creating illustrative juxtapositions within a chronological framework as well as integrating-áanalysis with biographical detail, Jones offers insight and clarity into the difficulties that drove Russ's career trajectory and eventual retirement from the SF field.--Brit Mandelo, author of We Wuz Pushed: On Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-Telling