James Tiptree Jr. (1915–1987)

Author of Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

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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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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (1990) 1,246 copies

Brightness Falls from the Air (1985) 668 copies

Up the Walls of the World (1978) 625 copies

Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home (1973) 585 copies

Warm Worlds and Otherwise (1975) 429 copies

The Starry Rift (1986) 405 copies

Star Songs of an Old Primate (1978) 284 copies

Crown of Stars (1970) 244 copies

Out of the Everywhere (1981) 195 copies

Screwtop/The Girl Who Was Plugged In (1973) 182 copies

Meet Me at Infinity (2000) 171 copies

Houston, Houston, Do You Read? / Souls (1989) 158 copies

Houston, Houston, Do You Read? [Novella] (1976) 149 copies

The Color of Neanderthal Eyes/And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees (1990) — Contributor — 114 copies

Tales of the Quintana Roo (1986) 95 copies

The Girl Who Was Plugged In [short fiction] (1973) 50 copies

Byte Beautiful: Eight Science Fiction Stories (1985) 45 copies

The Women Men Don't See [novelette] (1973) 39 copies

The Screwfly Solution [short fiction] (1977) 34 copies

Neat Sheets: The Poetry of James Tiptree, Jr. (1996) 26 copies

Love Is The Plan The Plan Is Death [novelette] (1973) 21 copies

The Only Neat Thing To Do [novella] 17 copies

The Voice that Murmurs in the Darkness (2023) 16 copies

The Last Flight of Doctor Ain (1969) 15 copies

The Man Who Walked Home [short fiction] 14 copies

And I awoke and found me here on the cold hill's side [short fiction] (1972) 14 copies

A Momentary Taste of Being 14 copies

Beam Us Home [short fiction] (1969) 13 copies

The Voice That Murmurs in the Darkness (2023) 12 copies

Slow Music [novella] (1980) 12 copies

Doktor Ain: Sämtliche Erzählungen, Band 1 (2014) 10 copies

We Who Stole the Dream (1978) 10 copies

The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats (1976) 10 copies

Houston, Houston!: Sämtliche Erzählungen, Band 3 (2013) 9 copies

Zu einem Preis: Sämtliche Erzählungen, Band 4 (2012) 9 copies

The Color of Neanderthal Eyes [novella] (2003) 9 copies

Your Faces O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled Of Light! (1976) 8 copies

And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways [short fiction] (1972) 8 copies

Painwise [short fiction] (1972) 8 copies

Beyond the Dead Reef (1982) 8 copies

Two Great Novels: Up the Walls of the World & Brightness Falls From the Air (2015) 8 copies

And So On And So On (1971) 7 copies

Liebe ist der Plan (2015) 7 copies

Le livre d'or de la Science-Fiction : James Tiptree (1986) 7 copies

The Milk Of Paradise 7 copies

On The Last Afternoon (1972) 6 copies

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever [short story] 6 copies

Second Going [short fiction] (1987) 6 copies

Yanqui Doodle (2015) 6 copies

I'll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool Is Empty [short fiction] (1972) 5 copies

With Delicate Mad Hands (1981) 5 copies

She Waits For All Men Born (1976) 5 copies

Yanqui Doodle [novelette] (1987) 4 copies

Out of the Everywhere [novelette] (1981) 4 copies

Happiness is a Warm Spaceship 4 copies

Your Haploid Heart 4 copies

Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo [short fiction] 4 copies

Mother in the Sky with Diamonds [short fiction] 4 copies

The Snows are Melted, the Snows are Gone {short story} 3 copies

Wie man die Unendlichkeit in den Griff bekommt (2016) 3 copies

The Boy Who Waterskied To Forever 3 copies

Fault 3 copies

The Night-blooming Saurian 3 copies

Amberjack 3 copies

Through A Lass Darkly 3 copies

All The Kinds Of Yes 3 copies

Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket [short fiction] 3 copies

Birth of a Salesman [short fiction] 3 copies

Timesharing Angel (short story) 3 copies

I'm Too Big but I Love to Play [short fiction] 3 copies

Our Resident Djinn [short story] (1986) 2 copies

Morality Meat (1985) 2 copies

All This and Heaven Too (1985) 2 copies

Come Live with Me [novelette] (1988) 2 copies

The Man Doors Said Hello To [short fiction] 2 copies

Faithful to Thee, Terra, in Our Fashion [short fiction] 2 copies

Backward, Turn Backward [novella] (1988) 2 copies

The Earth Doth Like a Snake Renew [novelette] (1988) 2 copies

Help 2 copies

Mamma Come Home [short fiction] 2 copies

愛はさだめ、さだめは死 (ハヤカワ文庫SF) (1987) 2 copies

すべてのまぼろしはキンタナ・ローの海に消えた (ハヤカワ文庫 FT) (2004) 2 copies

Exposure 2 copies

Filomena & Greg & Rikki-Tikki & Barlow 2 copies

In Midst of Life [short story] (1987) 2 copies

The Peacefulness of Vivyan [short fiction] 2 copies

Last Night and Every Night [short story] (1970) 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

Par-delà les murs du monde: roman (1978) 1 copy

たったひとつの冴えたやりかた改訳版 (2008) 1 copy

A Source Of Innocent Merriment 1 copy

We Who Stole The Dream Pt. 2 1 copy

たったひとつの冴えたやりかた (ハヤカワ文庫SF) (1987) 1 copy

星ぼしの荒野から (ハヤカワ文庫SF) (1999) 1 copy

Selección de relatos 1 copy

Please don't play with the time machine; or, I screwed 15,924 back issues of 'Astounding' for the F.B.I. 1 copy

A day like any other 1 copy

Press until the bleeding stops 1 copy

Go from me, I am one of those who pall (A parody of my usual style) 1 copy

The trouble is not in your set 1 copy

Trey of Hearts 1 copy

Houston, Houston Duyuyor Musun? (2021) 1 copy

O Brilho Escorre Do Ar Livro 1 1 copy

We Who Stole The Dream Pt. 1 1 copy

Beaver Tears 1 copy

Brightness falls from the air by Tiptree, James 1 copy

Una mirada a Alice B. Sheldon (Spanish Edition) 1 copy

Excursion Fare 1 copy

10,000 light years from home 1 copy

Houston, Houston, me recevez-vous ? (French Edition) 1 copy

老いたる霊長類の星への賛歌 (サンリオSF文庫) 1 copy

The Starry Rift & Up the Walls of the World & The Starry Rift ( Set of 3 Books ) 1 copy

20世紀SF〈4〉1970年代―接続された女 (河出文庫) (2001) 1 copy

Collision [novella] 1 copy

Good Night, Sweethearts [novelette] 1 copy

Angel Fix 1 copy

PseudoPod 400: The Screwfly Solution 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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The voice that murmurs in the darkness by James Tiptree Jr.

Beautifully produced book and an interesting collection but not a patch on Her Smoke Rose up Forever. Every story in the latter was a winner - this is much more of a mixed bag.

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Zambaco | Apr 10, 2024 |

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.

She's a bit savage and dark, but this book really delivered. I had only read one of these stories before, in an old anthology, but it had stuck with me--so it was nice to return to the accomplished style and craft of the woman behind the pseudonym.

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grahzny | 37 other reviews | Jul 17, 2023 |

The Starry Rift by James Tiptree

The Only Neat Thing to Do: 5
Good Night, Sweethearts: 4
Collision: 3

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bibliopolitan | 9 other reviews | Jun 24, 2023 |

The Starry Rift by James Tiptree Jr.

This trilogy of Tiptree short stories is held together by a framework that sets them as "historical" documents from the time when the human race was exploring their galaxy. Two of them touch briefly on how reproductive patterns of nonterrestrial races might differ from (and cause confusion or conflict with) human expectations. One deals with the curious social effects arising from the "coldsleep" that allowed humans to survive decades-long journeys in pre-FTL spacecraft. All are imbued with Tiptree's vividly-imagined future worlds.

Perhaps the best example of Tiptree's ability to go beyond space-opera here is the middle story, 'Goodnight, Sweethearts'. The basic plot is pretty straight-up adventure, wherein the loner protagonist (who runs a sort of roadside-assistance service, but in space) realizes the private liner he has just assisted has now blundered into the arms of the regional bad guys, and he's compelled, for various reasons, to attempt a rescue. His motivation is less altruistic than romantic -- one of the passengers is a woman with whom he has a romantic past.

Now, this sounds pretty much by-the-numbers, but Tiptree is also developing a strong undercurrent here of how futuristic technologies might impact everything from treatment for PTSD to what happens to personal relationships when lifespans can be extended into centuries by the suspended animation required for decades-long journeys through space. Ultimately, these factors lead the protagonist smack into a devastating moral choice -- but not necessarily the one readers might expect.… (more)

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