The Adventures of Alyx
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The Adventures of Alyx is a 1976 anthology of feminist science fiction stories by Joanna Russ.
It is comprised of five stories, "Bluestocking", "I Thought She Was Afeard Till She Stroked My Beard", "The Barbarian", "Picnic on Paradise" and "The Second Inquisition". These stories display elements of science fiction cloaked in fantasy in a similar way to work by Mary Gentle, who has cited them as an influence.
The eponymous heroine, Alyx, is (intentionally) described with different attributes across the different stories, although she remains reasonably constant inasmuch as she is depicted as a realistic human being, not the cliched fantasy woman prevalent across much of the genre.
Alyx makes cameo appearances in at least two stories of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser by Fritz Leiber.
