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James Tiptree Jr

(Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon)
USA  (1915 - 1987)
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About James Tiptree Jr
Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon wrote most of her fiction as James Tiptree--she was making a point about sexist assumptions and also keeping her US government employers from knowing her business. Most of her books are collections of short stories; Her Smoke Rose Up Forever is the best selection. Sheldon's best stories combine radical feminism with a tough-minded tragic view of life; even virtuous characters are exposed as unwitting beneficiaries of disgusting socio-economic systems. Even good men are complicit in women's oppression, as in her most famous stories 'The Women Men Don't See' and 'Houston, Houston, Do you Read ?' or in ecocide. Much of her work, even at its most tragic, has an attractively ironic tone which sometimes becomes straightforwardly comedy - it is important to stress that Tiptree's deep seriousness never becomes sombre or pompous. Her two novels Up the Walls of the World and Brightness Falls from the Air are both remarkable transfigurations of stock space opera material--the former deals with a vast destroying being, sympathetic aliens at risk of destruction by it and human telepaths trying to make contact across the gulf of stars. When both she and her husband became debilitatingly ill, she shot him and killed herself.
 
Anthologies containing stories by James Tiptree Jr
Best SF: 1969 (1969)
     aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 3
Again Dangerous Visions Book 2 (1972)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 (1973)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 (1974)
Nebula Award Stories 9 (1974)
Final Stage (1974)
The Hugo Winners 1971-1975 (1977)
The Hugo Winners Volume 3, Part 3: 1974-1975 (1977)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 6 (1977)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 22nd Series (1977)
Nebula Winners 12 (1978)
The Best of New Dimensions (1979)
Aliens! (1980)
Universe 10 (1980)
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year 1980 (1981)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10 (1981)
Fantasy Annual V (1982)
The Road to Science Fiction 4: From Here to Forever (1982)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 10 (1984)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Third Annual Collection (1986)
Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year 15 (1986)
Universe 17 (1987)
Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987)
A Century of Fantasy 1980-1989 (1990)
The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s (1993)
Future Earths : Under South American Skies (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
Invaders! (1993)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow (1994)
The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women (1995)
The Good Old Stuff (1995)
Women of Wonder (1995)
Cybersex (1996)
Visions of Wonder (1996)
Timegates (1997)
The Science Fiction Century (1997)
Bangs and Whimpers: Stories About the End of the World (1999)
Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons (2000)
The Furthest Horizon (2000)
Aliens Among Us (2000)
Best SF: 1969Again Dangerous Visions Book 2The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3
Nebula Award Stories 9Final StageThe Best Science Fiction of the Year 6The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 22nd Series
Nebula Winners 12The Best of New DimensionsAliens!Universe 10
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 10Fantasy Annual VThe Road to Science Fiction 4: From Here to ForeverThe Year's Best Fantasy Stories 10
The Year's Best Science Fiction Third Annual CollectionUniverse 17Great Science Fiction of the 20th CenturyA Century of Fantasy 1980-1989
The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980sFuture Earths : Under South American SkiesThe Norton Book of Science FictionInvaders!
The Ascent of WonderNew Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and TomorrowThe Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by WomenThe Good Old Stuff
Women of WonderCybersexVisions of WonderTimegates
The Science Fiction CenturyBangs and Whimpers: Stories About the End of the WorldExplorers: SF Adventures to Far HorizonsThe Furthest Horizon
Aliens Among Us
 
Short stories
Beam Us Home (1969)
The Last Flight of Doctor Ain (1969)Nebula (nominee)
The Snows Are Melted, the Snows Are Gone (1969)
I'm Too Big But I Love to Play (1970)
Mother in the Sky with Diamonds (1971)
And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (1972)Hugo (nominee)
Nebula (nominee)
The Man Who Walked Home (1972)
The Milk of Paradise (1972)
Painwise (1972)Hugo (nominee)
The Girl Who was Plugged in [short story] (1973)Nebula (nominee)
Hugo
Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death (1973)Hugo (nominee)
Nebula
The Women Men Don't See (1973)
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever [short story] (1974)
A Momentary Taste of Being (1975)Nebula (nominee)
Houston, Houston, Do You Read? [short story] (1976)Hugo
Nebula
The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats (1976)
Time-Sharing Angel (1977)Hugo (nominee)
Slow Music (1980)
A Source of Innocent Merriment (1980)
Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo (1981)Nebula (nominee)
The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever (1982)Hugo (nominee)
Beyond the Dead Reef (1983)
The Only Neat Thing to Do (1985)Hugo (nominee)
Nebula (nominee)
Second Going (1987)


Awards
Nebula Best Short story nominee (1970) : The Last Flight of Doctor Ain
Hugo Best Short story nominee (1973) : And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1973) : Painwise
Nebula Best Short story nominee (1973) : And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side
Hugo Best Novella winner (1974) : The Girl Who was Plugged in [short story]
Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1974) : Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death
Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1974) : The Girl Who was Plugged in [short story]
Nebula Best Short story winner (1974) : Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death
Nebula Best Novella nominee (1976) : A Momentary Taste of Being
Hugo Best Novella winner (1977) : Houston, Houston, Do You Read? [short story]
Nebula Best Novella winner (1977) : Houston, Houston, Do You Read? [short story]
Hugo Best Short story nominee (1978) : Time-Sharing Angel
Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1982) : Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo
Hugo Best Short story nominee (1983) : The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1986) : The Only Neat Thing to Do
Nebula Best Novella nominee (1986) : The Only Neat Thing to Do
World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1987) : Tales of the Quintana Roo


Books about James Tiptree Jr
James Tiptree, Jr.Alien Plots: Female Subjectivity and the Divine in the Light of James Tiptree's 'a Momentary Taste of Being'
 
Links to other websites
jamestiptreejr.com


James Tiptree Jr recommends
Cautionary Tales
Cautionary Tales (1978)
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
"Science fiction with fangs and claws... A rich book, no story like any other."



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