Margalit Fox in this evening's online New York Times—
Joanna Russ, Who Drew Women to Sci-Fi, Dies at 74
"Ms. Russ was best known for her novel 'The Female Man,' published in 1975 and considered a landmark. With that book, which told the intertwined stories of four women at different moments in history, she helped inaugurate the now flourishing tradition of feminist science fiction."
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