james tiptree

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...