The Adventures of Alyx
1976 collection of stories by Joanna Russ (reissued 1985).
Russ' feminist work began with the Alyx stories, published between 1967 and 1970 and collected in The Adventures of Alyx. Alyx is a smart, tough woman, a thief and assassin, sensual, intelligent and not beautiful. With Alyx, Russ deliberately countered prevailing gender stereotypes in SF and in her own writing she has said that Alyx was a breakthrough for her.
Alyx was inspired in part by Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series, and appeared in two of those stories.
Table of contents
- "Bluestocking"
- "I Thought She Was Afeard Till She Stroked My Beard"
- "The Barbarian"
- "Picnic on Paradise"
- "The Second Inquisition"
Editions
- 1976
- 1977 (Boston: Gregg Press)
- 1983 (Pocket) ISBN 0671459007
- 1985