Finally, weak from hunger, she resolves to kill herself. She experiences visions, first of the people she killed, and then of people from her past. Left alone, she becomes increasingly philosophical, recounting her personal history in political agitation and attempting to chart the days and seasons even as she begins to hallucinate from hunger and loneliness. Tensions escalate into violence, until finally she is forced to kill the other survivors in order to defend herself against rape. The men in the group are dedicated to colonizing and populating the planet, but the unnamed female protagonist, who does not believe that long-term survival is possible, resists being made pregnant by them. A group of people, with no technical skills and scant supplies, are stranded on a planet and debate how to survive. The story takes the form of an audio diary kept by the unnamed protagonist. It first appeared in magazine form in the January 1976 and February 1976 issues of Galaxy Science Fiction and was first published in book form by Dell Publishing in July 1977. is a feminist science fiction novel by Joanna Russ.

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