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'''''Picnic on Paradise''''' is a 1968 novel by [[Joanna Russ]], featuring [[Alyx]]. Alyx has been assigned to lead a small party of people through the wilderness of the tourist planet Paradise; a 10-day walk, almost like a picnic; what could go wrong? | |||
==Blurbs (Ace 1968 edition)== | |||
* [[Fritz Leiber]] - "''Picnic on Paradise'' is the only science fiction novel I've read at a single sitting in the past ten years. The tough little heroine Alyx grabbed my interest in the first sentence and never let go, any more than she ever lets go of her job of herding a fascinating bunch of future tourists across a winter-resort planet which is the battlefield of an eerie war and glitters with peril. Here is adventure, not romanticized, but as it really is: rough, dangerous and dirty, abristle with the unexpected, though with moments of high humor and surprising beauty." | |||
* [[Theodore Sturgeon]] - "Joanna Russ is not afraid of violence or sex or wild improbability. Neither is she afraid of tenderness or compassion or absolute tragedy. '''She is not afraid to feel,''' and her splendid book is recommended to anyone who can truly say the same about himself." | |||
* [[Poul Anderson]] - "An extraordinary book. There are real people here, inhabiting a real universe which is, simultaneously, altogether strange and altogether our own. Joanna Russ herewith joins those talented newcomers who are revolutionizing and revitalizing the entire field of science fiction." | |||
* [[Samuel R. Delany]] - "The depth, humanity, and craft of this novel are as rich as the situation is stark." | |||
* [[Hal Clement]] - "The yarn is a cluster of alien worlds evolving against the background of Paradise: the harshly physical one of Alyx, the overly simplified deterministic one of Machine, the wishful-thinking, artificial one of Gunnar. The most fascinating thing is watching the picnickers choose what parts of the world around them they want to believe; some learning to accept more of it as it's hammered home to them, some learning to duck the more intolerable realities more efficiently than before; the whole thing presented so convincingly that I really thought Miss Russ was going to kill off her heroine. In fact, I'm still not quite sure she didn't...." | |||
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[[Category:Novels]] | [[Category:Novels]] | ||
[[category:Joanna Russ]] | [[category:Joanna Russ]] | ||
Latest revision as of 19:45, 8 January 2011
Picnic on Paradise is a 1968 novel by Joanna Russ, featuring Alyx. Alyx has been assigned to lead a small party of people through the wilderness of the tourist planet Paradise; a 10-day walk, almost like a picnic; what could go wrong?
Blurbs (Ace 1968 edition)
- Fritz Leiber - "Picnic on Paradise is the only science fiction novel I've read at a single sitting in the past ten years. The tough little heroine Alyx grabbed my interest in the first sentence and never let go, any more than she ever lets go of her job of herding a fascinating bunch of future tourists across a winter-resort planet which is the battlefield of an eerie war and glitters with peril. Here is adventure, not romanticized, but as it really is: rough, dangerous and dirty, abristle with the unexpected, though with moments of high humor and surprising beauty."
- Theodore Sturgeon - "Joanna Russ is not afraid of violence or sex or wild improbability. Neither is she afraid of tenderness or compassion or absolute tragedy. She is not afraid to feel, and her splendid book is recommended to anyone who can truly say the same about himself."
- Poul Anderson - "An extraordinary book. There are real people here, inhabiting a real universe which is, simultaneously, altogether strange and altogether our own. Joanna Russ herewith joins those talented newcomers who are revolutionizing and revitalizing the entire field of science fiction."
- Samuel R. Delany - "The depth, humanity, and craft of this novel are as rich as the situation is stark."
- Hal Clement - "The yarn is a cluster of alien worlds evolving against the background of Paradise: the harshly physical one of Alyx, the overly simplified deterministic one of Machine, the wishful-thinking, artificial one of Gunnar. The most fascinating thing is watching the picnickers choose what parts of the world around them they want to believe; some learning to accept more of it as it's hammered home to them, some learning to duck the more intolerable realities more efficiently than before; the whole thing presented so convincingly that I really thought Miss Russ was going to kill off her heroine. In fact, I'm still not quite sure she didn't...."