I might be a bit salty about having missed my CBR9 cannonball, I was REALLY close, you guys. This book was one of my close calls, and while very enjoyable was just a bit too dense for me to plow through it the way I wanted to. I bought this on a “well, it’s cheap” whim, unfamiliar with or Sheldon, and on further reading I realized that the only story of hers (his? Theirs?) I was familiar with was written by another pseudonym of Alice’s […]
“You carry despair as your gift.”
By now, most science fiction readers know that James Tiptree, Jr was not James Tiptree, Jr, but rather Alice Bradley Sheldon. Sheldon was a retired CIA officer (and scientist/artist/critic/businesswoman) who, between 1968 and her death in 1987, published some of the most acclaimed short stories in the genre, using Tiptree as her nom de plume. (She also published a few stories – mostly ignored at the time – under the name Raccoona Sheldon.) I was too young to discover her work while she was living, […]