Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas 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. Revisions from the author's notes are included, allowing a deeper view into her world and a better understanding of her work. The Nebula Award-winning short story Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death, the Hugo Award-winning novella The Girl Who Was Plugged In, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novellaHouston, Houston, Do You Read? are included.
Contents:
- Introduction by John Clute
- The Green Hills of Earth
- The Last Flight of Dr. Ain
- The Screwfly Solution
- The Boundaries of Humanity
- And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side
- The Girl Who Was Plugged In
- The Man Who Walked Home
- And I Have Come Upon This Place By Lost Ways
- Male and Female
- The Women Men Don't See
- Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!
- Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
- Star Songs
- With Delicate Mad Hands
- A Momentary Taste of Being
- We Who Stole the Dream
- Life and Death
- Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
- Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death
- On the Last Afternoon
- She Waits for All Men Born
- Slow Music
- Epilogue: And Man Abides...
- And So On, and So On
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James Tiptree Jr.
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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