Warm Worlds and Otherwise

Warm Worlds and Otherwise

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‘Tiptree’s narratives of alien worlds and alienation make up one of science fiction’s most vivid and influential bodies of work’ The New York TimesThis landmark collection of short stories shows the feminist pioneer James Tiptree Jr. at her most inventive and daring. Here a fake girl becomes a living advertisement, women choose alien invaders over the men of Earth, a creature discovers that love means death and a pandemic engulfs the planet.’Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman – who wrote as a man – as Margaret Atwood’ Vox

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Weight 0.16 kg
Dimensions 1.5 × 11.1 × 18.1 cm
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Pages

272
Publisher

Year Published

2021-6-3
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0241509750
About The Author

James Tiptree Jr, the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon (1915 – 1987) is widely considered to be one of the most influential genre writers of the twentieth century, and a pioneer of feminist science-fiction. Born in Chicago, she worked in the United States Army Air Force as an intelligence officer, where she rose to the rank of Major. She began to write science-fiction under the Tiptree pseudonym in 1967. Her short stories and novellas have received numerous prizes, including multiple Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. She was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012.

Tiptree's narratives of alien worlds and alienation make up one of science fiction's most vivid and influential bodies of work
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Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman – who wrote as a man – as Margaret Atwood.
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