books by James Tiptree Jr.

books by James Tiptree Jr.

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James Tiptree Jr.

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

Tor Books, 1989

Tales of the Quintana Roo

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 ...

Star Songs of an Old Primate

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 ...

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

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 ...

Warm Worlds and Otherwise

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 ...

The Starry Rift

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 ...

OUT OF THE EVERYWHERE

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 ...

Crown of Stars

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 ...

Up Walls of the World

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 ...

Ten Thousand Light Years From Home

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 ...

The Hugo Winners, Volume 4: Thirteen Prizewinning Stories (1976 - 1979)

Roger Zelazny, Larry Niven, ...

Doubleday Books, 1985

Not Free SF Reader
An exceptional anthology, obtaining the platinum standard of a 4 average, including two 5s. The only weak spot is the Leiber. Hugo Winners 4 : Home Is the Hangman - Roger Zelazny Hugo Winners 4 : The Borderland of Sol - Larry Niven Hugo Winners 4 : Catch That ...

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

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 ...

Brightness Falls From the Air

eReads, 2004

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 ...

Meet Me At Infinity: The Uncollected Tiptree: Fiction and Nonfiction

James Tiptree Jr., Jeffrey D. Smith

Tor Books, 2001

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 ...

Screwtop/the Girl Who Was Plugged in (Tor Double, No 7)

James Tiptree Jr., Vonda N. McIntyre

Tor Books, 1989

A science fictions set for women
Of the two I liked "Screwtop" more, as the characterizations and plot seem more realistic than the Hugo award winning "The Girl who was plugged in". The Tiptree novel invents a new technology of wireless remote control of a human clone by a controller. He has the ...