James Tiptree, Jr.

(b.1915-d.1987)

Dr. Alice Sheldon

Other Titpree links

A Bibliography of James Tiptree, Jr. a.k.a Alice Sheldon
The James Tiptree, Jr. Memorial Award
The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats

Bio:

Pseudonym for Alice P. Sheldon. Her true identity was not known during her first publications and few suspected she was not a man. Ph.D. in psychology, worked for the Pentagon. In 1987 she shot her husband, who was suffering from Alzheimer's and then ended her own life.

"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" was recently filmed as an episode of Welcome to Paradox

Pseudonyms:Racoona Sheldon

Awards: Hugo, Nebula

Bibliography:

Brightness Falls From the Air
February 1985, Tor Books Hardcover ISBN:0-312-93097-6
September 1993, St. Martin's Press paperback ISBN:0-312-85407-2 Amazon.com Amazon.com ordering info
Byte Beautiful: Eight Science Fiction Stories
Short story collection
November 1985, Doubleday ISBN:0-385-19653-9
The Color of Neanderthal Eyes
1989, Tor Double No,16 (With Strange at Ecbatan the Trees, by Michael Bishop) ISBN:0-812-55964-9
Crown of Stars
Short story collection
September 1988, Tor Books ISBN:0-312-93105-0
September 1990, Tor Books Paperback ISBN:0-812-50338-4
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
September 1990, Arkham House Hardcover ISBN:0-870-54160-9
Morality Meat
Out of the Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions
Short story collection
November 1981, Ballantine Books ISBN:0-345-28485-2
The Starry Rift
Short story collection
February 1989, Tor Books Paperback ISBN:0-812-55627-5
September 1994, Tor Books Paperback ISBN:0-312-89021-4 Amazon.com
Star Songs of an Old Primate
Short story collection
December 1977, Ballantine Books ISBN:0-345-25417-1
Tales of the Quintana Roo
Short story collection
March 1986, Arkham House Publishing Hardcover ISBN:0-870-54152-8
Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home
Short story collection
June 1975, G K Hall & Co ISBN:0-839-82322-3
Up the Walls of the World
January 1978, Puntam Publishing Group ISBN:0-399-12083-1
January 1984, Ace Books ISBN:0-441-85471-0 (Review.)
Warm Worlds and Otherwise
Short story collection
February 1979, Ballantine Books ISBN:0-345-28022-9 (sh.sts. Review.

"And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side"
"Beam Us Home"
"Beyond the Dead Roof"
"The Earth Doth Like a Snake Renew"
"The Girl Who was Plugged In"
Made into an episode of the TV series Welcome to Paradox
"Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" (1974, Final Stage
"Houston, Houston, Do You Read?"
novella 1976 Nebula Award
"I'm Too Big, But I Love to Play"
"Lirios"
"Love is the Plan the Plan is Death"
1973 Nebula
"The Man Who Walked Home"
"Mother in the Sky With Diamonds"
"The Screwfly Solution"
"Slow Music"
1980 from Interfaces
"The Women Men Don't See"
"Yaqui Doodle"

The Fiction of James Tiptree Jr
By Gardner Dozois
August 1983, Borgo Press ISBN:0-893-70752-X
James Tiptree, Jr. (Starmont Reader's Guide, 22)
by Mark Siegel
April 1984, Borgo Press hardcover ISBN:0-893-70770-8
January 1986, Starmont House Paperback ISBN:0-916-73267-3
january 1986, Starmont House hardcover ISBN:0-916-73268-1

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