Lisa Feld's Reviews > Again, Dangerous Visions

Note: Goodreads has merged my review of "When it Changed" by Joanna Russ with the larger anthology in which it once appeared.

Russ says it best in her afterword: stories about societies of women are often either power-mad, sexually insatiable male fantasies or boring, unrealistic utopias. Here Russ is mindful of the fact that women are people, and people build homes and families, make art, make love, get drunk and fight on Saturday night, piss off their neighbors, shelve their dreams to pay the bills, and every other activity on the spectrum of human possibility. And that human texture fuels a very interesting first contact story about two cultures with very different assumptions.