James Tiptree Jr (24 August 1915 – 19 May 1987) was the pen name of American science fiction author Alice Bradley Sheldon, used from 1967 to her death. She also occasionally wrote under the pseudonym Raccoona Sheldon (1974–77).
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- You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?
- "I'm Too Big But I Love To Play" in Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home (1973)
- Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.
- Letter quoted in "James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon" (2006) by Julie Phillips
- Our fellow passenger was Major Grogan, who thirty years before had been the first white man to go from the Cape to Cairo. It took him three years, one whole year in the marshes of the Sudd; his two companions died. It is said he ate them; I think so. He looked like a sensible man.
- As quoted in "James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon" (2006) by Julie Phillips
External links
- Biographical references
- James Tiptree, Jr. at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Biography and resources at the James Tiptree, Jr. World Wide Website
- Site for Julie Phillips's biography of Tiptree
- New York Times review of JAMES TIPTREE, JR The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon By Julie Phillips
- On-line Fiction
- The Women Men don't See
- Painwise
- Beam Us Home
- The Screwfly Solution
- Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death
- The Last Flight of Doctor Ain and The Screwfly Solution
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