Letters to Tiptree
Title | Letters to Tiptree PDF eBook |
Author | Alexandra Pierce |
Publisher | Twelfth Planet Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2015-08-26 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1922101397 |
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Alice Sheldon’s birth, and in recognition of the enormous influence of both Tiptree and Sheldon on the field, Twelfth Planet Press is publishing a selection of thoughtful letters written by science fiction and fantasy’s writers, editors, critics and fans to celebrate her, to recognise her work, and maybe in some cases to finish conversations set aside nearly thirty years ago.
Cyril M. Kornbluth
Title | Cyril M. Kornbluth PDF eBook |
Author | Phil Stephensen-Payne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781871133035 |
James Tiptree, Jr.
Title | James Tiptree, Jr. PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Phillips |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 689 |
Release | 2015-01-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 146688911X |
James Tiptree, Jr. burst onto the science fiction scene in the 1970s with a series of hard-edged, provocative short stories. Hailed as a brilliant masculine writer with a deep sympathy for his female characters, he penned such classics as Houston, Houston, Do You Read? and The Women Men Don't See. For years he corresponded with Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Ursula Le Guin. No one knew his true identity. Then the cover was blown on his alter ego: A sixty-one-year-old woman named Alice Sheldon. As a child, she explored Africa with her mother. Later, made into a debutante, she eloped with one of the guests at the party. She was an artist, a chicken farmer, a World War II intelligence officer, a CIA agent, an experimental psychologist. Devoted to her second husband, she struggled with her feelings for women. In 1987, her suicide shocked friends and fans. The James Tiptree, Jr. Award was created to honor science fiction or fantasy that explores our understanding of gender. This fascinating biography by Julie Phillips, ten years in the making, is based on extensive research, exclusive interviews, and full access to Alice Sheldon's papers.
Meet Me At Infinity
Title | Meet Me At Infinity PDF eBook |
Author | James Tiptree |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2001-06-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780312869380 |
James Tiptree, Jr. was the pseudonym of Alice B. Sheldon (1915-1987), in whose honor the Tiptree Awards are given annually. She wrote some of the best short SF ever, winning two Hugos and three Nebulas. This book brings together stories previously uncollected-including an early one published under her own name in The New Yorker-and many of her colorful non-fiction pieces, mainly autobiographical, published under the Tiptree name (1970-1987). What shines through in this book is the magnetic and charming personality of the author, one of the most influential SF personalities of her era.
Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s
Title | Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s PDF eBook |
Author | Rox Samer |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2022-02-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1478022647 |
In Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s, Rox Samer explores how 1970s feminists took up the figure of the lesbian in broad attempts to reimagine gender and sexuality. Samer turns to feminist film, video, and science fiction literature, offering a historiographical concept called “lesbian potentiality”—a way of thinking beyond what the lesbian was, in favor of how the lesbian signified what could have come to be. Samer shows how the labor of feminist media workers and fans put lesbian potentiality into movement. They see lesbian potentiality in feminist prison documentaries that theorize the prison industrial complex’s racialized and gendered violence and give image to Black feminist love politics and freedom dreaming. Lesbian potentiality also circulates through the alternative spaces created by feminist science fiction and fantasy fanzines like The Witch and the Chameleon and Janus. It was here that author James Tiptree, Jr./Alice B. Sheldon felt free to do gender differently and inspired many others to do so in turn. Throughout, Samer embraces the perpetual reimagination of “lesbian” and the lesbian’s former futures for the sake of continued, radical world-building.
Other Aliens
Title | Other Aliens PDF eBook |
Author | Bradford Morrow |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 2017-05-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1504044681 |
New writings on our fear of—and fascination with—the “other” from Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, Kelly Link, Jeffrey Ford, and more. Alien is a powerful and flexible word. Aliens are “other.” Aliens are the stuff of science fiction and fantasy. Aliens are traditional literary figures that cause us to see ourselves anew. Indeed, when we witness our “normal” lives through these strangers’ eyes, we become the unfamiliar ones. Conjunctions:67, Other Aliens collects works of speculative and literary science fiction: innovative short stories, poetry, interviews, letters, and essays that explore the vast precincts of unfamiliarity, keen difference, weirdness, and not belonging. This provocative issue includes contributions from an all-star lineup, including Leena Krohn, Jeffrey Ford, Julia Elliott, John Crowley, Laura Sims, Valerie Martin, Lavie Tidhar, Samuel R. Delany, Matthew Baker, Paul Park, James Tiptree Jr., Michael Parrish Lee, Peter Straub, Kelly Link, Madeline Bourque Kearin, Jean Muno, Jonathan Thirkield, John Clute and John Crowley, Joyce Carol Oates, S. P. Tenhoff, Brian Evenson, Jessica Reed, E. G. Willy, and James Morrow.
Remembering Vonda
Title | Remembering Vonda PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanne Gomoll |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 230 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0359697976 |