james tiptree

Two students go to the library looking for class materials. The librarian gives them a series of three books/stories. I think this was a young adult novel. I read it back in the 80s, I think. Story 1: A young girl, newly declared adult, takes her father's spaceship for a joy ride. She...

Brightness Falls From the Air by "James Tiptree, Jr." (Alice Sheldon) (1985) Reading this novel and knowing something about the woman who called herself "James Tiptree, Jr." is a strange experience. It's hard to ignore the fact that she fooled everybody into thinking she was male, with a...

James Tiptree, Jr. may have had one of the oddest journeys through the genre thus far. Tiptree was the pseudonym for Alice Sheldon (also known as Raccoona Sheldon), and was acknowledged as one of the genre's best authors in the 70's. I think she only put out two novels during her lifetime, but...

I'm trying to track down the name and author of a short story I read many years ago. It has to do with a recurring phenomenon at a certain spot, every year or whatever there is a disturbance of dust and sound and a figure appears in the haze. It eventually turns out that it's a space (or maybe...

1) Hi! I'm new here. I have read this forum/portal for a bit and it seems like a nice place. I found this place when I found myself wondering about something regarding Tolkien, so I typed the question into Google, thinking that someone must have discussed that somewhere. I was right and I found...