Alyx and the Doctor (Understanding Joanna Russ Part 2)

The Adventures of Alyx (1976)

On Joanna Russ (2009)

I'm certainly glad that I read the Gary K Wolfe article, "Alyx Among the Genres" in On Joanna Russ, because without it I would have been rather alarmed and confused by the oddities of the Alyx collection. The individual pieces (mostly short stories, plus one extraordinary short novel) are marvellous on their own, but trying to figure out how they fit together is something of a puzzle. Luckily, having read the article, I knew it was supposed ...