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James Tiptree Jr


(Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon)
USA flag (1915 - 1987)

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.
 

Awards: WFA (1987), Nebula (1977), Hugo (1977)  see all

Genres: Science Fiction
 
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Books containing stories by James Tiptree Jr
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The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 1 (2023)
(Big Book of Cyberpunk, book 1)
edited by
Jared Shurin
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman
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The Future Is Female! Volume Two (2022)
(Future Is Female!, book 2)
edited by
Lisa Yaszek

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Awards
1987 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection : Tales of the Quintana Roo
1986 Locus Award for Best Novella : The Only Neat Thing to Do
1977 Nebula Award for Best Novella : Houston, Houston, Do You Read? [short story]
1977 Hugo Award for Best Novella : Houston, Houston, Do You Read? [short story]
1974 Nebula Award for Best Short Story : Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death
1974 Hugo Award for Best Novella : The Girl Who was Plugged in [short story]

Award nominations
1991 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Her Smoke Rose up Forever
1989 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Color of Neanderthal Eyes
1989 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Backward, Turn Backward
1989 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Crown of Stars
1988 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Yanqui Doodle
1988 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Second Going
1987 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Good Night, Sweethearts
1987 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Collision
1987 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Tales of the Quintana Roo
1987 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Starry Rift
1986 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Only Neat Thing to Do
1986 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Brightness Falls from the Air
1986 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Byte Beautiful
1986 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Only Neat Thing to Do
1983 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever
1982 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo
1982 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : With Delicate Mad Hands
1982 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Out of the Everywhere: And Other Extraordinary Visions
1981 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Slow Music
1979 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Up the Walls of the World
1978 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Time-Sharing Angel
1977 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Houston,Houston, Do You Read?
1976 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : A Momentary Taste of Being
1976 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : A Momentary Taste of Being
1974 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Girl Who was Plugged in [short story]
1974 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death
1973 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side
1973 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side
1973 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : Painwise
1970 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Last Flight of Doctor Ain


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

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