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	James Tiptree, Jr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She adopted the pseudonym of James Tiptree Jr.
		This is partly due to the fact that though it was widely known that "Tiptree" was a psuedonym, it was generally understood that its use was intended to protect the professional reputation of an intelligence community official.
		The revelation of her sex had no adverse impact on people's opinions of her talent; her final Nebula Award (for "The Screwfly Solution," published under her other occasional pseudonym, Raccoona Sheldon) was awarded in 1977.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Tiptree,_Jr (885 words)

	Lowry Pei- Poor Singletons: Definitions of Humanity in the Stories of James Tiptree, Jr.
		Forceful as this story is, the high point of Tiptree's concern with drives is undoubtedly "Love Is the Plan the Plan is Death" (1973), a monologue by an alien being, spoken as he dies in the jaws of his mate, in which he recounts his struggles with the biological determinism that rules them.
		Tiptree suggests that the function of this intervention will be to end the loneliness of the "last human" by killing her.
		Although it is now known that "James Tiptree, Jr." is a pseudonym of Alice Sheldon, and though I discuss one story ("The Screwfly Solution") published under the pseudonym of "Raccoona Sheldon," I refer to the author of these stories as "Tiptree" because that is the name readers associate with all but one of them.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/19/pei19art.htm (4772 words)

	The Alien Online - Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror News, Reviews, Articles and more... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To put it plainly, Tiptree has too often been seen by critics purely as a 'feminist' writer, as if gender roles and gender bias were the alpha and the omega of her writing.
		Tiptree's theme is not really sex, despite the fact that her story is ostensibly couched in the terms of a critique of the human erotic drive.
		Tiptree suggests, with her subtle recasting of the myth, that it may be quite otherwise: it may have been an index of the wedding guest's own desire.
	www.thealienonline.net /columns/rcsf_tiptree_apr03.asp?tid=7&scid=55&iid=1591 (2596 words)

	Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree, Jr. -- Back in print at last!
		Many of Tiptree's most successful stories explore alien lives and societies, and their interactions with humans with such depth and empathy that sometimes it's hard to keep in mind that she's making it all up (or is she?).
		Her longest story, it constructs an act of sexual reproduction on a scale that truly boggles the mind, in which humans function as sperms traveling in a rocket that (inadvertently) penetrates a galactic egg; but it is consciousness itself that functions as the DNA.
		Tiptree's life is hands down the most fascinating of any science fiction writer in history, yet it is woefully under documented.
	home.earthlink.net /~copaceticcomicsco/TiptreeSmoke.html (773 words)

	The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats by James Tiptree, Jr.
		This story is in a sense a companion piece to Wilhelm's "The Planners," about being a working scientist in a laboratory, facing moral choices, but replacing the fantasizing of Wilhelm's piece with a drunken, dreamlike supernatural phantasmagoria at the center of this story, reminiscent of a Keatsian visit to Faerie.
		Tiptree's story is another milestone in the characterization of the scientist, invoking the Gothic, Hawthorne strain.
		Tiptree continually challenged idea of the coldness of the universe, portraying that coldness as a negative aspect of human character rather than an affect existing somehow in external reality -- until her last stories.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /exper/kcramer/anth/Rats.html (450 words)

	The James Tiptree, Jr. Award
		The award is named for Alice B. Sheldon, who wrote under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr.
		The first James Tiptree Award Anthology is still available.
		Each year the Tiptree Award motherboard appoints a panel of five judges to read and discuss among themselves the merits of gender-bending fiction published in the previous year.
	www.tiptree.org (983 words)

	Review of James Tiptree Jr.'s Warm Worlds and Otherwise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tiptree seemed to prove that it was possible for men to gain a perspective outside their gender, and it's interesting that Silverberg would feel the need to defend Tiptree's purview as typically male.
		Tiptree deconstructs human desire, both the kind known as lust and the kind known as greed.
		Moggadeet is that alien and "she" struggles to survive and to improve the quality of life, and all in concepts and in writing that are bizarre and often violent.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/warmworlds.htm (1154 words)

	About James Tiptree, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As James Tiptree, Jr., Alice Sheldon wrote many of the best science fiction stories to appear in the 1970s and 1980s, winning all the major awards the field had to offer.
		Tiptree was one of the most original writers ever in a field that values originality above all things.
		James Tiptree was one of the best short story writers of the last half of the twentieth century.
	www.tachyonpublications.com /author/James_Tiptree.html?Session_ID=new&Reference_Page=/authors.html (589 words)

	FACT SF Reading Group
		Tiptree's essays discussing her work were interesting, but it was frustrating that none of the famous stories she mentioned were available in this book.
		It is only appropriate for Tiptree completists, who have read all of her famous work and want to get their hands on every word she wrote.
		Readers wishing to try Tiptree's work for the first time should find one of her other books, which unfortunately are all out of print.
	www.fact.org /reading/reports/aug01.shtml (855 words)

	Review \| James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tiptree's prose skills along with her breathtaking ideas brought science fiction to a different place.
		Even if she hadn't started writing as Tiptree and "Raccoona Sheldon" in the later part of her life, her biography would still be fascinating reading.
		When she finally became the writer that she was, beginning in the late 1960s and into the early 70s when she wrote many of her most important and brilliant stories, she did so as James Tiptree, Jr., a name she and Ting created.
	www.januarymagazine.com /biography/tiptree.html (1190 words)

	SciFan: Books: Meet Me at Infinity by James Tiptree, Jr (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, anthologies, ...
		James Tiptree Jr., is introduced by Jeffrey D. Smith, who tells the reader that, by its very nature, this collection is less a book by Tiptree than one about her.
		Although the essays and stories and articles here were assembled by Tiptree before her death, Smith has interleaved Tiptree's words with notes of his own, including quotes from private correspondence between the two.
		Once the male Tiptree was exposed as the female Sheldon, her work--and her relationships with colleagues and fans and critics, previously conducted solely by mail--changed.
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=15140 (428 words)

	JamesTiptree Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		James Tiptree Jr., aka Alice Bradley Sheldon, lived a life as bizarre as any sci-fi novel.
		One of the founders of the CIA and a former soldier, she was neurotically shy and spent the last part of her life as a depressive recluse.
		The title could be a description of Bradley’s own life: A blaze of brilliance long gone but survived by a literary legacy that still acts as both a sign of and a smokescreen for her true identity.
	www.starhaven1.net /Tiptree.htm (502 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Her Smoke Rose Up Forever / The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1
		The Tiptree is not an ordinary SF award; it has a specific, even ideological purpose -- a juried award for, as Murphy says, "a short story or novel which explores and expands gender roles in speculative fiction." The results have been surprising, infuriating, perplexing, and often marvelous.
		One of the pleasures of the Tiptree award is the variety of tastes demonstrated over the years by the different juries, and the world would benefit quite a bit from an anthology that demonstrated that sort of variety, rather than simply privileging one jury's selections and tossing in a couple of old favorites.
		Rather, Tiptree's men are biologically fated to love women in ways that hurt them, and to love them for the wrong reasons, and to hate them because they love them.
	www.sfsite.com /04a/hs197.htm (1680 words)

	James Tiptree, Jr. Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was initiated in February of 1991 by SF authors Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler, subsequent to a discussion at WisCon (the world's only feminist-oriented science fiction convention).
		By choosing a masculine nom de plume, having her stories accepted under that name and winning awards with them, Sheldon helped demonstrate that the division between male and female SF writing was illusory.
		Years after "Tiptree" first published SF, Sheldon wrote some work under the female pen name "Raccoona Sheldon"; later, the SF world discovered that "Tiptree" had been female all along.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Tiptree,_Jr._Award (368 words)

	Suzy McKee Charnas: James Tiptree Award
		From its inception, the idea of the Tiptree has always been to include both a practical dimension — usually a check for $1000 — and a more fanciful one, comprising a beautiful art object and some magnificent form of that ambrosial substance which I believe is only fully appreciated by women — chocolate.
		So the Tiptree chocolate component is also a statement, as I see it, about the tangible and essential value of that work.
		There used to be a keyboard cast in chocolate as the edible part of the Tiptree, a dark or milk chocolate frame with white chocolate keys; but the company that made those has apparently gone under.
	www.suzymckeecharnas.com /Tiptreecake.html (419 words)

	James Tiptree, Jr. WWW Page
		Julie Phillips' James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon to be published in August by St. Martin's.
		Alice Bradley Sheldon was born in 1915 in Chicago, Illinois, daughter of Mary Hastings Bradley, a prolific author, mostly of travel literature, and Herbert Bradley an attorney, African explorer, and naturalist.
		In 1968, with the help of her husband and the inspiration of a jar of marmalade, she adopted the pseudonym of "James Tiptree, Jr." and began to publish science fiction short stories, widely admired for their "male" author's ability to delineate female character and explore profoundly women's issues.
	davidlavery.net /Tiptree (1383 words)

	"Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" by James Tiptree, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tiptree's fiction reflects the darkly complex world its author inhabited: exploring the alien among us; the unreliability of perception; love, sex, and death; and humanity's place in a vast, cold universe.
		Also available from Tachyon Publications: The James Tiptree Award Anthology I; edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith.
		His adventures and writing--gleaned from the details of Sheldon's life--were convincingly masculine; when Sheldon finally revealed herself, her ruse was met with both surprise and delight.
	www.tachyonpublications.com /book/Her_Smoke.html?Session_ID=new&Reference_Page=/books.html (547 words)

	Printed Matter -- Alice Sheldon or James Tiptree, Jr. -- Page
		I was reminded of Sheldon's fascinating life and work when I sat in on a science fiction class at UC Davis last quarter.
		Tiptree's true identify went undiscovered until the mid-'70s.
		For a long time, it's safe to say, everyone in the small incestuous world of science fiction thought Tiptree was a man, even those who had been corresponding with her, up to and including Ursula Le Guin.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /~gizmo/dec22.html (676 words)

	Love was the Plan, The Plan Was . . . (an remembrance of James Tiptree, Jr.)
		James Turner, something about a mutual friend named Tiptree, and I called him back from a pay phone in the lobby.
		A story of her suicide and the shooting death of her husband had been in the Times, but I hadn't seen the papers in a couple of days, so it was only thanks to Jim that I knew then.
		In story after story Tiptree's characters struggle and die, but they do it with a sense of purpose that is awesome; they do it trying to minimize pain and destruction to others, jamming their very lives into the dike to hold back entropy as long as possible.
	davidlavery.net /Tiptree/siegellwtptpw.htm (4103 words)

	AfterEllen.com - Lesbian/Feminist Science Fiction
		All on my own I somehow discovered the short stories of James Tiptree, Jr., a renowned science fiction writer who, it turned out, was actually a woman named Dr. Alice Sheldon.
		But in retrospect, it makes sense: Tiptree wrote about gender, and about transforming it Even when I was fourteen, I found that to be something that I instinctively wanted to know about, and when I discovered that James Tiptree, Jr.
		Anthropologist Marghe Taishan arrives on the planet Jeep to test a vaccine against a plague that killed all men on the planet, and she subsequently becomes involved with several of the all-women societies on the proto-industrial world.
	www.afterellen.com /Print/scifi.html (1050 words)

	Michigan State University Libraries' Tiptree Award Depository (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The MSU Libraries are pleased to announce their designation as a depository for works honored by the James Tiptree, Jr.
		The Tiptree Award was created in 1991 in memory of the science fiction author Alice B. Sheldon, who began her career using the male pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr.
		The 1977 revelation that James Tiptree was a woman stunned many male SF authors and helped break down stereotypes about 'women's' writing.
	www.lib.msu.edu /coll/main/spec_col/nye/science/tiptree.htm (290 words)

	Article: The 2002 Tiptree: An Inside Look at a Juried Award, by Mary Anne Mohanraj
		There are quite a few awards given out in spec fic, and while Greg Beatty has done a wonderful job of detailing the different awards and their purposes, I suspect the process of selecting the winners is still quite obscure to most readers, especially for the juried awards.
		We asked for more guidance, and the Tiptree motherboard informed us that it was up to us to define what we were looking for; that every year, the new jury had to decide that for themselves.
		Not eligible for the Tiptree Award, because the author is one of the founding mothers.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2003/20030407/tiptree.shtml (2546 words)

	Alice Sheldon and the James Tiptree Jr. Award
		During the period of this masquerade, the reclusive Alice Sheldon published, under the name James Tiptree Jr., some of the most powerful stories the science fiction field will ever see and convinced most of her readers that this radical feminist work had been done by a man.
		This life history went a long way toward convincing her readers she must be a man. Eventually she felt the need of a female pen-name as well, and some of her work can be found under the name Raccoona Sheldon.
		However, the bulk of Sheldon's science fiction work was published under the Tiptree pseudonym from 1967 until her identity was exposed in 1977.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue22/tiptree.html (514 words)

	Meet Me at Infinity (James Tiptree Jr) - book review
		There's Sheldon's own view of the great revelation (that James Tiptree and Raccoona Sheldon were actually Alice Sheldon) as well as a bio-sketch and interview she put together for Contemporary Authors.
		The result will be a gold-mine for Tiptree fans and those interested in the history of science fiction, but is unlikely to command a broad general audience.
		It is a bit too much of a grab-bag — I suspect there are people who would enjoy the travel pieces, for example, but who would lack the context to appreciate the ruminations on science fiction.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Meet_Infinity.html (427 words)

	Tiptree Bibliography -- Secondary Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dozois, Gardner R. The Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr.
		Hayler,-Barbara-J. “The Feminist Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr.: Women and Men as Aliens.” In SPECTRUM OF THE FANTASTIC: SEL.
		Heldreth,-Lillian-M. “ 'Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death': The Feminism and Fatalism of James Tiptree, Jr.” EXTRAPOLATION 23.1 (1982 Spring): 22-30.
	virtual.clemson.edu /groups/dial/sfclass/tiptree2.html (463 words)

	The Templeton Gate - Authors - James Tiptree Jr,
		I have never been sure exactly when and by whom her deception was discovered, but it did not occur until sometime in 1976, around the time of the death of her mother.
		She would later reveal to Ursula LeGuin her reason for doing so was the many remarks concerning the story being an example that a man was capable of writing interesting and sympathetic female characters, and a prize for the story would have only added to the deceit her pseudonym had already created.
		Your Faces, Filled of Light!" Tiptree created many varied and interesting alien characters for her stories, but it could be said that some of the most alien are the humans.
	members.tripod.com /templetongate/tiptree.htm (1593 words)

	Amazon.com: Star Songs of an Old Primate: Books: James Tiptree Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Jr.
		This is as solid as NE Tiptree collection, but worth it all 4 "A Momentary Taste of Being," 1 of THE most devastating SF stories U'll ever read.
		Tiptree's suicide was a big loss 2 the SF field.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345254171?v=glance (452 words)

	James Tiptree Jr
		About James Tiptree Jr Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon wrote most of her fiction as James Tiptree--she was making a point about sexist assumptions and also keeping her US government employers from knowing her business.
		Her two novels Up the Walls of the World and Brightness Falls from the Air are both remarkable transfigurations of stock space opera material--the former deals with a vast destroying being, sympathetic aliens at risk of destruction by it and human telepaths trying to make contact across the gulf of stars.
		Alien Plots: Female Subjectivity and the Divine in the Light of James Tiptree's 'a Momentary Taste of Being' (1999) by Inez Van Der Spek
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /t/james-tiptree-jr (747 words)

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