Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home
Contents:
- Introduction by Harry Harrison
- And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side
- The Snows Are Melted, The Snows Are Gone
- The Peacefulness of Vivyan
- Mamma Come Home (aka The Mother Ship)
- Help (aka Pupa Knows Best)
- Painwise
- Faithful to Thee, Terra, in Our Fashion (aka Parimutuel Planet)
- The Man Doors Said Hello To
- The Man Who Walked Home
- Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket
- I'll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool Is Empty
- I'm Too Big But I Love to Play
- Birth of a Salesman
- Mother in the Sky with Diamonds
- Beam Us Home
A COLLECTION OF 15 MASTERPIECES BY ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST STARS IN THE
SCIENCE FICTION FIRMAMENT, TALES OF WIT, WONDER AND ADVENTURE – WITH A
TOUCH OF SOMETHING STRANGE...
AND I AWOKE AND FOUND ME HERE ON THE COLD HILL'S SIDE – Exogamy, the
desire to mate with the new and different has been a primary force in
human evolution – but when the object of that desire is not merely
different, but alien...
THE MAN WHO WALKED HOME – The first Chrononaut moved step by step from
the far future toward a present whose past was in the future, and whose
future was his past...
I'M TOO BIG BUT I LOVE TO PLAY – Genuine communication between human
and alien implies that one must transform himself into an analog of the
other. And when that transformation is complete...
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James Tiptree, Jr. (1915–1987) was the pen name of American science fiction author Alice Bradley Sheldon, used from 1967 to her death. She also occasionally wrote under the pseudonym Raccoona Sheldon (1974–1977). Tiptree/Sheldon was most notable for breaking down the barriers between writing perceived as inherently "male" or "female" – it was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree, Jr. was a woman.
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