Warm Worlds and Otherwise

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 Times *
Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman - who wrote as a man - as Margaret Atwood. * Vox *
Tiptree’s work is proof of what she said, that men and women can and do speak both to and for one another, if they have bothered to learn how – Ursula K. Le Guin

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.

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