Presents the short stories and novellas that touch upon human nature and perception, metaphysics and epistemology, and gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind.
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Presents the short stories and novellas that touch upon human nature and perception, metaphysics and epistemology, and gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind.
Description
There is just one great collection of Tiptree's fiction in print . . . Her Smoke Rose Up Forever from Tachyon Publications. It contains all of her major short stories.'"
-New York Times Book Review
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever collects eighteen brilliant short stories from a luminary of the science-fiction genre, James Tiptree, Jr. This updated edition is the quintessential Tiptree collection and contains revisions from the author's original notes. 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.
Critic Reviews
“"Tiptree is one of the best story writers in or out of the [science fiction] field."”
"There is just one great collection of Tiptree's fiction still in print... Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, from Tachyon Publications." -- The New York Times Book Review -- Locus "One of science fiction's greatest assets." -- Science Fiction Chronicle "Exquisite, lyrical prose...keen insight and ability to depict singularity within the ordinary." -- Publishers Weekly "Showcases what are undoubtedly the best of Tiptree's stories." --SF Site "One of the first hardbacks I ever bought and still one of my most read." -- Locus
About the Author
James Tiptree Jr
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Closing a gap in the literature, this comprehensive book presents the utility of carbohydrate derivatives as chiral auxiliaries, reagents, complex ligands and organocatalysts, together with details of their preparation, as well as their successful application in stereo-selective synthesis. Divided into four parts: Carbohydrate Auxiliaries Carbohydrate Reagents Carbohydrate Ligands Carbohydrate Organocatalysts It is an indispensable source for every organic chemist. Contains a Foreword by Professor Horst Kunz, Johannes-Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany
There is just one great collection of Tiptree's fiction in print . . . Her Smoke Rose Up Forever from Tachyon Publications. It contains all of her major short stories.'" -- New York Times Book Review Her Smoke Rose Up Forever collects eighteen brilliant short stories from a luminary of the science-fiction genre, James Tiptree, Jr. This updated edition is the quintessential Tiptree collection and contains revisions from the author's original notes. 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.
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