James Tiptree Jr. (1915–1987)
Author of Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
About the Author
James Tiptree, Jr., was the pseudonym that Alice Bradley Sheldon began to use for her writing in 1967. Born in Chicago, she grew up in Africa and India, worked for the CIA, and earned a Ph.D. in psychology. In 1987, when Tiptree and her husband became gravely ill, she killed him and herself
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Works by James Tiptree Jr.
The Only Neat Thing To Do [novella] 17 copies
The Man Who Walked Home [short fiction] 14 copies
A Momentary Taste of Being 14 copies
The Milk Of Paradise 7 copies
Happiness is a Warm Spaceship 4 copies
Your Haploid Heart 4 copies
Fault 3 copies
The Boy Who Waterskied To Forever 3 copies
All The Kinds Of Yes 3 copies
Birth of a Salesman [short fiction] 3 copies
Amberjack 3 copies
Through A Lass Darkly 3 copies
The Night-blooming Saurian 3 copies
Timesharing Angel (short story) 3 copies
Mamma Come Home [short fiction] 2 copies
Help 2 copies
Exposure 2 copies
We Who Stole The Dream Pt. 2 1 copy
We Who Stole The Dream Pt. 1 1 copy
10000 Lichtjahre von zuhaus 1 copy
A day like any other 1 copy
We Who Stole The Dream Pt. 2 1 copy
Trey of Hearts 1 copy
Selección de relatos 1 copy
We Who Stole The Dream Pt. 1 1 copy
Beaver Tears 1 copy
Excursion Fare 1 copy
10,000 light years from home 1 copy
老いたる霊長類の星への賛歌 (サンリオSF文庫) 1 copy
Collision [novella] 1 copy
Angel Fix 1 copy
Associated Works
Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy (1990) — Contributor — 483 copies
The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993) — Contributor — 315 copies
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015) — Contributor — 291 copies
The Locus Awards: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy (2004) — Contributor — 269 copies
The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin: A Library… (2018) — Contributor — 230 copies
The New Women of Wonder: Recent Science Fiction Stories by Women About Women (1977) — Contributor — 182 copies
Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s (1995) — Contributor — 178 copies
Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (2006) — Contributor — 177 copies
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, the Future, and Chocolate Chip Cookies (2004) — Contributor — 175 copies
Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy (1986) — Contributor — 169 copies
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 49 • June 2014 (Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue) (2014) — Contributor — 159 copies
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology (2009) — Contributor — 130 copies
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Four: Nebula Winners 1970-1974 (1986) — Contributor — 122 copies
Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind: An Anthology of Original Stories (1985) — Contributor — 112 copies
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2: Stories for Men, Women, and the Rest of Us (2005) — Contributor — 99 copies
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3: Subversive Stories about Sex and Gender (2007) — Contributor — 95 copies
The Future Is Female! Volume Two, The 1970s: More Classic Science Fiction Storie s By Women: A Library of America… (2022) — Contributor — 78 copies
New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow (1994) — Contributor — 61 copies
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Contributor — 36 copies
Women of Vision : Essays by Women Writing Science Fiction (1988) — Contributor, some editions — 33 copies
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. LXXXI, No. 1 (March 1968) (1968) — Contributor — 20 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1982, Vol. 63, No. 4 (1982) — Author — 15 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 11, No. 7 [July 1987] (1987) — Contributor — 14 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1986, Vol. 70, No. 3 (1986) — Contributor — 13 copies
Womens Fantastic Adventures. Stories. ( Fremdsprachentexte). (Lernmaterialien) (1992) — Author — 11 copies
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 68. Mythen der nahen Zukunft. (1984) — Contributor — 7 copies
Science Fiction — Contributor — 6 copies
Heyne Science Fiction Jahresband 1991. 8 Romane und Erzählungen prominenter SF- Autoren. (1993) — Contributor — 5 copies
I Premi Hugo 1976-1983 — Contributor — 3 copies
S-Fマガジン 1986年 10月号 — Contributor — 1 copy
S-Fマガジン 1986年 12月号 — Contributor — 1 copy
S-Fマガジン 1986年 06月号 — Contributor — 1 copy
S-Fマガジン 1987年 09月号 — Contributor — 1 copy
Friendly aliens : thirteen stories of the fantastic set in Canada by foreign authors — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Sheldon, Alice Bradley
- Other names
- Sheldon, Raccoona
Sheldon, Alice Hastings Bradley
Sheldon, Alice - Birthdate
- 1915-08-24
- Date of death
- 1987-05-19
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Place of death
- McLean, Virginia, USA
- Cause of death
- suicide
- Places of residence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
McLean, Virginia, USA - Education
- George Washington University (PhD|Experimental Psychology|1967)
American University (BA) - Occupations
- science fiction writer
novelist
short story writer
psychologist
army officer
psychologist (show all 8)
art critic
graphic artist - Relationships
- Bradley, Mary Hastings (mother)
Davey, William (first husband) - Organizations
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
U.S. Army Air Forces
Central Intelligence Agency - Awards and honors
- Solstice Award (2011)
SF Hall of Fame (2012) - Agent
- Virigina Kidd Agency
- Short biography
- Alice Bradley Sheldon, better known as James Tiptree, Jr., was born in Chicago, Illinois. At age six, she was taken by her parents on safari in Africa. Her mother, author Mary Hastings Bradley, wrote several books about their travels, including Alice in Jungleland (1927), a children's book that featured photos of her daughter. In 1934, Alice eloped with William Davey, a Princeton student she had met only five days earlier. The couple divorced in 1941 and Alice returned to Chicago, where she got a job as art critic of the Chicago Sun. During World War II, she joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps and worked at the Pentagon in photo intelligence. At the end of the war, she was transferred to a different unit, where she married her commanding officer, Colonel Huntington Sheldon. In 1952, they both joined the CIA, where she again worked in photointelligence and studied political changes in Africa. Alice left the CIA in 1955 and resumed her education, earning a B.A. from American University in Washington, D.C., in 1959 and then a Ph.D. in experimental psychology at George Washington University. While completing her dissertation, she wrote several science fiction stories, which she published under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr., in order to separate them from her academic career. She became one of the most-respected writers in the sci-fi field, winning the Hugo Award for her novella The Girl Who was Plugged In (1973). During the period 1970 to 1977, she wrote prolifically and at great speed. Her stories were collected in several volumes, including Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home (1973), Warm Worlds and Otherwise (1975), Star Songs of an Old Primate (1978), Out of the Everywhere, and Other Extraordinary Visions (981), and Her Smoke Rose Up Forever: The Great Years of James Tiptree, Jr. (1990). She also wrote several sci-fi stories as Raccoona Sheldon, and some non-sci fi under other names. Her true identity came to light in 1977. She killed herself and her second husband in 1987. She received a posthumous Solstice Award and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012.
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