Ruby Dixon’ s impressive twenty-two-part saga Ice Planet Barbarians has everything from alien abductions and spaceship crashes to assimilating to life on a foreign ice planet and finding love with giant blue barbarians. Dixon’ s science fiction romance novels are certainly out of this world, and although most readers initially begin their ascent into the series out of confusion or curiosity, many end up captivated by the story and may even go as far as reading the first nine novels in two weeks, much like the author of this essay. Despite at first glance being a unique and humorous read that friends may poke fun at when they see it listed on Goodreads, Dixon does an excellent job at intentionally addressing a central theme of feminism, as well as applying an intersectional lens to the text.
The Ice Planet Barbarian saga is starkly different from most romance novels because it is also speculative fiction. Despite this, Dixon’ s saga has gone viral and not only introduced countless women to the speculative fiction genre but also captured their attention through the empowering feminist approach presented throughout the novels. By introducing strong, diverse female main characters with agency, addressing consent and female desire, and directly tackling the feeling of‘ otherness,’ Dixon’ s saga empowers readers with countless feminist ideals that correlate with feminist theories.
Dixon’ s saga blends science fiction and romance, following a group of human women kidnapped by aliens and later stranded on an ice planet after the spaceship crashes. The women form close bonds and are left to explore this
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