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Houston, Houston, Do You Read?/Souls (Tor Double, No 11)
James Tiptree Jr., Joanna Russ

Tor Books, 1989

9 reviews
James Tiptree Jr.

Tor Books, 1986

A Very Different Book
I can see why the reviewers are pretty much split down the middle on this one. The set-up is extraordinary, the writing style is unusual, and the payoff is less than the reader hopes for. Even so, I really enjoyed this novel. There are more ideas in this book than in a dozen average SF novels, so I can look past the fact that many of the ideas are never fleshed out. It is the first "James ...

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

9 reviews
Jr., James Tiptree

Tachyon Publications, 2004

Outstanding Sci-Fi with an Unusual Perspective
I'm an unsure how James Tiptree/Alice Bradley's work hasn't appeared in more of the feminist/women's studies courses I took in either undergrad or graduate school. Her perspective on the future of humanity and the exploration of science has a viewpoint I have never read in science fiction up to this point and I'm glad a book review in a different source led me to reading these stories - in ...

Warm Worlds and Otherwise

4 reviews
James Tiptree Jr.

Del Rey, 1979

She was a gifted writer
This is the Tiptree collection which contains the infamous introduction by Robert Silverberg in which he claims that Tiptree was not just a man, but indubitably a man, based on the text herein. Of course, Tiptree wasn't a man, which Silverberg discovered in a personal note from Alice Sheldon to himself, recounted in an afterword to his introduction in this later edition of the collection. ...

Meet Me at Infinity

4 reviews

Tor Books, 2000

Insightful Plus Rare Stories
Jeff Smith has collected private letters and musings of the wildly imaginative Alice Sheldon. Included are some rarely found stories: "The Color of Neanderthal Eyes" and the amazing "Trey of Hearts". Tiptree was the best of the best, and Smith's collection throws some light onto this great writer's complex personality. It's a fine collection, a must-have for any Tiptree fan.

The Starry Rift

6 reviews
James Tiptree Jr.

Tor Books, 1986

a classic
"The Only Neat Thing to Do" (a story in this book) is a major literary achievement, deserving to stand proudly, as a very female and very SF counterpart, alongside Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea", or Melville's "Billy Budd": equally deserving to be considered a classic.

Houston, Houston, do you read? (The Science Fiction Book Club collection)

2 reviews
James Tiptree

Doubleday Book & Music Clubs], 1996

Stories that intrigue, challenge and interest
James Tiptree, an alias of Alice Sheldon, was one of the most intriguing authors of the Seventies and Eighties. Her stories were frequently bleak in appearance but not always in tone. For instance the title story concerns a space crew suddenly transported to a rather different future. And while we wouldn't wish to share their ultimate fate, it says much about our modern assumptions about gender ...

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever: The Great Years of James Tiptree, Jr

4 reviews
James Tiptree Jr [Alice B Sheldon]

Arkham House Publishers, 1990

My Favorite Book in the World
Do you have a favorite book in the world? This book, quite simply, is mine. This is a posthumously-published collection of eighteen stories by James Tiptree, Jr. (pseudonym for Alice Sheldon). It contains most of her best short fiction. It also contains a compelling introduction by John Clute. Mark Richard Siegel, who wrote the Starmont Reader's Guide on James Tiptree, Jr., wrote the ...

Screwtop/the Girl Who Was Plugged in (Tor Double, No 7)
James Tiptree Jr., Vonda N. McIntyre

Tor Books, 1989

OUT OF THE EVERYWHERE

2 reviews
James Tiptree Jr.

Del Rey, 1981

about the best sci-fi writer in the business
Most of Tiptree's (Alice Sheldon's) short fictional works have appeared earlier and elsewhere. This is a new mix. All of her stories are excellent. The title story is almost a novella and one of her more hopeful stories, about an energic life form that takes refuge in various shapes on earth to escape a predator and so learns a little about human life and materiality. Tip has a delightful ...

Up Walls of the World

2 reviews
James Tiptree Jr.

Ace, 1984

Fascinating, deeply moving experience
James Tiptree Jr. tells a fascinating tale of bizarre aliens and flawed humans in the novel "Up the Walls of the World". On Earth, a burned-out doctor leads a government project to test a group of higly dysfunctional human telepaths. On the wind-world of Tyree, a group of aliens try to stave off the destruction of their sun by a creature know as the Destroyer. To save themselves, they ...

Star Songs of an Old Primate

1 review
Jr. James Tiptree

Del Rey, 1978

Solid collection -- with 1 all-time CLASSIC!
This is as solid as NE Tiptree collection, but worth it all 4 "A Momentary Taste of Being," 1 of THE most devastating SF stories U'll ever read. Impossible 2 Dscribe, it takes 70 pages, but U'll B knocked out. Should've won an award, Cms 2 B completely overlooked, even by Tiptree's fans -- would make a great movie: the enormity & the Dspair, as U discover what Man's Ultimate Goal really is. ...

Crown of Stars

2 reviews
James Tiptree Jr.

Tor Books, 1988

An excellent gateway
Crown of Stars is an excellent gateway into the writing of James Tiptree - in particular, "Backward, turn Backward" is approachable but disturbing. Her work tends to explore what gender means - similar to the way Phillip K. Dick explores perception of reality. Yanqui Doodle took a couple of readings before I fully understood what was going on. All in all, an excellent collection.

Tales of the Quintana Roo

3 reviews
James Tiptree Jr.

Arkham House Publishers, 1986

magical
This is one of the most striking books I have read in the last year. It contains three short stories, all set in the Yucatan with the same main character. All three deal with ambiguous, mysterious, and "magical" events that were told to the main character. The stories are told in a way that leaves you wondering if the events they tell of happened or if they came from the fevered minds and ...

Ten Thousand Light Years From Home

2 reviews
James Jr Tiptree

Ace Books, 1978

Not Free SF Reader
Don't come across Tiptree books too often that I have seen. This one is quite good. Along with some of the more well know and perhaps angrier and more disturbed type of tale there is some lighter satire and even a spot of space opera. Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home : And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side - James Tiptree Jr. Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home : The Snows ...

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