Meet Me at Infinity
James Tiptree, Jr. was the pseudonym of Alice B. Sheldon (1915–1987), in whose honour the Tiptree Awards are given annually. This book brings together stories previously uncollectedincluding an early one published under her own nameand many of her colourful non-fiction pieces, published under the Tiptree name (1970–1987).
Contents:
- Introductionby Jeffrey D. Smith
- Happiness Is a Warm Spaceship
- Please Don't Play with the Time Machine, or, I Screwed 15,924 Back Issues of Astounding for the F.B.I. (aka Please Don't Play With the Time Machine)
- A Day Like Any Other
- Press Until the Bleeding Stops
- Go from Me, I Am One of Those Who Pall (A Parody of My Style)
- The Trouble Is Not in Your Set
- Trey of Hearts
- The Color of Neanderthal Eyes
- If You Can't Laugh at It, What Good is It? (interview)
- In the Canadian Rockies (essay)
- I Saw Him (essay)
- Spitting Teeth, Our Hero (essay)
- Do You Like It Twice? (essay)
- The Voice from the Baggie (essay)
- Maya Máloob (essay)
- Looking Inside Squirmy Authors (essay)
- Comment on "The Last Flight of Doctor Ain" (essay)
- Afterword to "The Milk of Paradise" (essay)
- Afterword to "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" (essay)
- Introduction to "The Night-blooming Saurian" (essay)
- The Laying On of Hands (essay)
- Going Gently Down, or, In Every Young Person There Is an Old Person Screaming to Get Out (essay)
- The Spooks Next Door • essay by James Tiptree, Jr.
- Harvesting the Sea (essay)
- More Travels, or, Heaven Is Northwest of You (essay)
- With Tiptree Through the Great Sex Muddle (essay)
- Quintana Roo: No Travelog This Trip (essay)
- Review: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin (book review)
- How to Have an Absolutely Hilarious Heart Attack, or, So You Want to Get Sick in the Third World (essay)
- The First Domino (essay)
- Everything but the Signature Is Me (essay)
- The Lucky Ones (essay)
- Something Breaking Down (essay)
- Dzo'oc U Ma'an U Kinil – Incident on the Cancun Road, Yucatan (essay)
- Not a New Zealand Letter (essay)
- Biographical Sketch for Contemporary Authors (essay)
- Contemporary Authors Interview (interview)
- S.O.S. Found in an SF Bottle (poem)
- Note on "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" (essay)
- How Do You Know You're Reading Philip K. Dick? (essay) (aka Introduction (The Days of Perky Pat))
- Review: Kayo: The Authentic and Annotated Autobiographical Novel from Outer Space by James McConkey (book review)
- Zero at the Bone (essay)
- A Woman Writing Science Fiction (essay)
- Chronology of Publications (essay)
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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.
