Books by J. Ruth

Slipstream fiction set between 1999 and the late 2040s, Variables imagines the Universe as a computer recently set back to a restore point, to either eradicate humanity or give them a second chance.

This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work possible. The book's stark accounts of academic labour, and its proposals for reform of the tenure system, are novel, controversial, timely, and very necessary.