The Two of Them, Joanna Russ. Berkley, 1978.
Vintage paperback. Front cover is scuffed/faded with some wear along edges. Spine is faded and creased with wear at ends. Back cover is scuffed with some wear at corners. Fair condition.
The Two of Them is considered Russ’s last great sci-fi novel.
"Russ entered college at fifteen, sold her first story at twenty-two, came out as a lesbian in a field dominated by men, and, before her death, in 2011, published several science-fiction novels, a handful of story collections, a lesbian romance called "On Strike Against God", and a stream of sharp-elbowed criticism, becoming an inescapable member of the community. Furthermore, she was brilliant in a way that couldn’t be denied, even by those who hated her. Her writing was at once arch and serious; she issued her judgments with supreme confidence, even when they were issued against herself. She was here to imagine, to invent wildly, and to undo the process, as one of her heroines puts it, of “learning to despise one’s self.” But she was going to have a lot of fun doing it. And, if you were doing anything else, you were not really, to her mind, writing science fiction." (The New Yorker, 2020)