Series
Whileaway
Joanna Russ · 1 novel · 3 short stories · 1972–1997
Joanna Russ's The Female Man (1975) is a single feminist science fiction novel, not a multi-book series, built around four women from parallel timelines with very different gender arrangements. One of them, Janet, comes from Whileaway, an all-female utopian Earth ten centuries in the future where men died out in a plague; the other three come from realities closer to Russ's own, and their collisions are used to interrogate what womanhood and equality could mean under different social rules.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Whileaway at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s3
- 1980s0
- 1990s1
Shape
1 novel · 3 short stories
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictiongender and societyother star systemsfar futurereflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 4 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Female Mandarkest · most intense
- A Few Things I Know About Whileawaybrightest · calmest