Tag: James Tiptree Jr
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Monk Reviews Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr
A brutal meditation in a hefty short story collection. Tiptree wrote dark and fatalistic sci-fi that lingers on today as something of a passed over and forgotten writer of the 70s speculative and feminist sci-fi waves (well this book is still in print so it’s not that forgotten). At one point Tiptree was lauded as…
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Monk Reviews James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
To grow up as a “girl” is to be nearly fatally spoiled, deformed, confused, and terrified; to be responded to with falsities, to be reacted to as nothing or as a thing—and nearly to become that thing. Alice Sheldon I got into this biography after reading Tiptree’s Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. Anymore I recommend…
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