Warm Worlds and Otherwise
Published on 3. June 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-241-50975-3 (ISBN)
Description
'Tiptree's narratives of alien worlds and alienation make up one of science fiction's most vivid and influential bodies of work' The New York Times
This landmark collection of short stories shows the feminist pioneer James Tiptree Jr. at her most inventive and daring. Here a fake girl becomes a living advertisement, women choose alien invaders over the men of Earth, a creature discovers that love means death and a pandemic engulfs the planet.
'Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman - who wrote as a man - as Margaret Atwood' Vox
This landmark collection of short stories shows the feminist pioneer James Tiptree Jr. at her most inventive and daring. Here a fake girl becomes a living advertisement, women choose alien invaders over the men of Earth, a creature discovers that love means death and a pandemic engulfs the planet.
'Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman - who wrote as a man - as Margaret Atwood' Vox
Reviews / Votes
Tiptree's narratives of alien worlds and alienation make up one of science fiction's most vivid and influential bodies of work * The New York Times * Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman - who wrote as a man - as Margaret Atwood. * Vox * Tiptree's work is proof of what she said, that men and women can and do speak both to and for one another, if they have bothered to learn how -- Ursula K. Le GuinMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 109 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
163 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-50975-3 (9780241509753)
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James Tiptree
Warm Worlds and Otherwise
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James Tiptree Jr, the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon (1915 - 1987) is widely considered to be one of the most influential genre writers of the twentieth century, and a pioneer of feminist science-fiction. Born in Chicago, she worked in the United States Army Air Force as an intelligence officer, where she rose to the rank of Major. She began to write science-fiction under the Tiptree pseudonym in 1967. Her short stories and novellas have received numerous prizes, including multiple Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. She was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012.