Love Is The Plan The Plan Is Death [novelette]

by James Tiptree Jr.

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...Between the lines of the narrative, the details of his ecology become clear and the conclusion, for anybody who knows anything about arachnids, should be obvious. Considered in that light, Moggadeet is not all that alien. To write him from his perspective without overly bold anthropomorphisation is quite an achievement. He may not have broken the cycle of life and death that governs his species, but there is a kind of contentment in the climax of the story that is hard to imagine from a human point of view...

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Una grandissima scrittrice che si firmava con il nome maschile di James Tiptree jr (ma il suo vero nome, che rimase per lungo tempo incognito, era Alice Sheldon).
Qui, una storia d'amore alieno cantata quasi fosse un poema: Amore e Morte, Eros e Thanatos ; un amore totalmente differente dal nostro, una sessualità più vicina a quella di qualche insetto, ma differente da qualsiasi conosciuta.
Nella quale predominano una pulsione di sopravvivenza esasperata, in quanto le condizioni climatiche sono estreme, ed in peggioramento, e un'aggressività cannibalica essenziale, necessaria, alla continuazione della specie. Vinse il Premio Nebula.

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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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Canonical title
Love Is The Plan The Plan Is Death [novelette]
Original title
Love Is The Plan The Plan Is Death [short story]
Original publication date
1973
People/Characters*
Moggadeet; Frim; Leelyloo
First words*
Erinnern...
Last words*
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Und sag ihnen ... die Winter wachsen.
Original language*
Englisch
Disambiguation notice*
This is a short story. Do NOT combine with any collections.
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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction

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