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James Tiptree, Jr. burst onto the science fiction scene in the 1970s with a series of hardedged, provocative short stories. Hailed as a brilliant masculine writer with a deep sympathy for his famale character, he penned such classics as Houston, Houston, Do You Read? and The Women Men Don't... read more
First Sentence
Mary Hastings Bradley is forgotten now, but in her daughter's lifetime she was a famous writer.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Who is Tiptree, What is He?
1. The Innocent Adventuress
2. Africa (1921-1922)
3. Childhood
4. Cannibals at Home (1924-1925)
5. Celebrity (1925-1928)
6. Girls' School (1929-1930)
7. Like a du Maurier Heroine (1931)
8. Ambition (1931-1933)
9. "We Have Found it Quite Impossible to Persuade Her to Lead a Normal Life" (1933-1934)
10. Love Trouble (1935-1936)
11. Sex and Arguing (1936-1940)
12. War Fever (1941-1942)
13. Fort Des Moines (1942-1943)
14. In a Pentagon Basement (1944)
15. Ting (1945)
16. Going Underground (1946-1947)
17. Running a Chicken Hatchery in New Jersey (1948-1952)
18. The Agency (1952-1955)
19. A Disappearance and a Return (1955)
20. Learning to See (1956-1959)
21. Chez Women (1950s)
22. Predoctoral Research Grant No. 10, 907 (1960-1962)
23. Rat Science (1963-1967)
24. The Birth of a Writer (1967)
25. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Spock (1968)
26. First Contact (1969)
27. The Yucatan (1970)
28. A Decadent Intellectual Fakes up in a Woodman's Shirt (1971)
29. Friendships (1971-1973)
30. The Women Men Don't See (1972)
31. A Glass Getting Ready to Crack (1973)
32. "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" (1973-1974)
33. A Tin Rocket (1974)
34. A Sensitive Man (1974-1975)
35. Depression (1975-1976)
36. Mary's Death (1976)
37. Tiptree Revealed (1976)
38. "I Live in my Body as in an Alien Artifact" (1977)
39. Writing Again (1979-1981)
40. Love is the Plan the Plan is Death (1982-1987)
Acknowledgments
Note on Sources
Works by Alice B. Sheldon
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Authors & Contributors
- Julie Phillips (Author)
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