Synopses & Reviews
This fourth entry in a notable and controversial series continues to celebrate provocative fiction that explores and expands gender. Through their subversive, engaging fiction, Tiptree awardwinning authors offer fascinating speculations on the ever-increasing mutability of our identities and desires. The James Tiptree, Jr. Award is an annual literary prize for speculative fiction, named for the pen name of one of science fictions most brilliant writers, Alice B. Sheldon. Authors selected for this series include Dorothy Allison, Ted Chiang, Joe Haldeman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kelly Link, and Joanna Russ.
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A superior array of creative and thoughtful writing for both genders.” Booklist, on The James Tiptree Award Anthology series
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A trove of fascinating thought.” Locus magazine
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Top-shelf story telling.” Time Out
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The contributions demonstrate a rare gift for interpreting an issue in new and surprising ways.” Library Journal
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Both dark and sparkling, topical and timeless, these stories wrap around us.” Jewelle Gomez, author, The Gilda Stories
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Buy a ticket and enjoy the rides: funhouse, rollercoaster, carousel, twister. A collection to celebrate!” Mary Doria Russell, author, The Sparrow
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Really worth the ducats.” Bookslut
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Stereotype-busting stories and gender-bending romances . . . immense, surprising and utterly delightful.” SciFi.com
About the Author
Karen Joy Fowler is the author of The New York Times bestseller, The Jane Austen Book Club, and Sister Noon, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She lives in Davis, California. Pat Murphy is the author of the Nebula Awardwinning The Falling Woman and Rachel in Love. She lives in San Francisco. Debbie Notkin is the editor of Flying Cups and Saucers, which was the first anthology of Tiptree-recognized short fiction. She lives in Oakland, California. Jeffrey D. Smith is the literary trustee of James Tiptree, Jr.'s literary estate and an editor of the revised edition of Tiptree's Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.