Synopses & Reviews
Returning again to the fertile ground of sex and identity, this third entry in a successful and controversial anthology series continues to celebrate thought-provoking and provocative fiction that explores and expands gender. Through their subversive, engaging stories, Tiptree Awardwinning authors offer fascinating speculations on the ever-increasing mutability of our publicand privateselves. James Tiptree, Jr. was the pseudonym of Alice Bradley Sheldon, whose lasting contributions to the gender-bending genre are honored with this annual award, now in its 15th year. Previous winners of the Tiptree Award include Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin, M. John Harrison, Kelly Link, Joe Haldeman, and Joanna Russ.
Review
"Stereotype-busting stories and gender-bending romances...immense, surprising and utterly delightful."
—SciFi.com
A dozen award-winning and short-listed pieces probe the boundaries of sexual identity in todays world and in imaginatively rendered futures. Nalo Hopkinson recounts the macabre fate of a superstitious mans third wife, who mistakenly becomes pregnant. Ursula Le Guin fashions a world in which marriage involves four bisexual partners and predictably complex interrelations. In honor of its namesake, the volume includes Tiptrees brilliant The Girl Who Was Plugged In, envisioning a future in which advertising is illegal, and remotely manipulated starlets push products using their celebrity alone. While some selections focus more on racial concerns than gender issues, the resulting collection is both entertaining and thought-provoking.”
Booklist
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3 is absolutely recommended for everyone who is interested in a wide range of fantastic fiction with a taste for the experimental.”
SF Site, featured review
And lo and behold, it is quite brilliant.”
Strange Horizons
I had so much fun escaping into the short stories in this collection of SF.... As I read this book, it seemed as though the stories just got better and better.”
BookLoons
This is science fiction, speculative fiction, weird fiction, and fiction that will take you places you thought you were not meant to go.”
The Agony Column
Whether you prefer your literary palate filled by a provincial Anna Wintour, an itinerate octo-bodied poet, or a transistorized Cinderella, this latest edition has enough substance to satisfy any gender (or mix thereof).”
SF Revu
A dozen award-winning and short-listed pieces probe the boundaries of sexual identity in todays world and in imaginatively rendered futures.”
Booklist
...go[es] beyond whatever imagined boundaries may be placed around feminist science fiction....”
New York Review of Science Fiction
Synopsis
You will be subvertedand you will like it.
In these provocative tales intersecting sexuality and identity, a third-world fashionista masters the Internet, an itinerant poet collaborates with its eight selves, a four-way marriage flouts social conventions, and an ugly duckling is reinvented as a compromised swan.
The James Tiptree, Jr., Award is an annual literary prize for speculative fiction that explores and expands gender. The Tiptree Award is named for one of science fictions most brilliant writers, Alice B. Sheldon. Sheldon, an ex-debutante turned CIA operative, wrote for ten years as the enigmatic James Tiptree, Jr., until her true identity was uncovered.
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"Go[es] beyond whatever imagined boundaries may be placed around 'feminist science fiction.'" New York Review of Science Fiction"Stereotype-busting stories and gender-bending romances...immense, surprising and utterly delightful." SciFi.com"Really juicy...transgresses the boundaries of fiction, genre and gender." The Agony Column"Subversive stories about sex and gender . . . imaginative flights into other worlds." BookLoons"Absolutely recommended for everyone who is interested in a wide range of fantastic fiction with a taste for the experimental." SF Site (featured review)"It's hard to pick out favorites, so I won't try. Just get the book and read them all." The Green Man Review"This latest edition has enough substance to satisfy any gender." SF Revu
"Pure gold . . . what a feast!" Bibliogramma