Synopses & Reviews
Simultaneously exploring and expanding gender roles, the stories in
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 are thought-provoking, imaginative, and highly provocative. Touching on the most fundamental of human desires, Tiptree Awardwinning authors continually redefine social identities. This collection gathers short fiction, novel excerpts, and essays that were chosen by the Tiptree Award judges in 2003 and in previous years. In addition, the collection includes essays and commentary exploring the Tiptree legacy.
If you like The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1, wait until you see The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2 and 3.
Review
A superior array of creative and thoughtful writing for both genders.”
Booklist
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 will come as a surprise to those who think the award is given to stories which only celebrate the role of women and advocate its expansion. Instead the stories explore all varieties of gender in thoughtful and provocative ways. Focusing mostly on a single year, The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1 leaves plenty of room for additional volumes, which deserve to grace the shelves of all science-fiction and gender-studies fans.”
SF Site
"Really worth the ducats...important in the speculative fiction field."
—Bookslut.com
Synopsis
This debut anthology features short fiction, novel excerpts, and essays that have won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Created in 1991 to honor the innovative fiction of Alice Bradley Sheldon (who wrote under the pen name James Tiptree), the Tiptree Award is presented to speculative fiction that explores and expands gender roles—and in the process touches on the most fundamental of human desires: the need for sex, for love, and for acceptance. This collection includes thought-provoking essays by Suzy McKee Charnas, Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Pat Murphy, and Joanna Russ.
About the Author
Karen Joy Fowler is the author of
The Jane Austen Book Club,
Sarah Canary,
Sister Noon, and the short story collection
Black Glass, which won the World Fantasy Award in 1999. She lives in Davis, California.
Pat Murphy is the author of
Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell and two Nebula Award-winning titles:
The Falling Woman and
Rachel in Love. She lives in San Francisco, California.
Debbie Notkin is an editor for Tor Books and Prima Publishing. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Jeffrey D. Smith is the literary trustee of James Tiptree, Jr.'s estate. He is the editor of
Women in Science Fiction and
Meet Me at Infinity, a posthumous collection of Tiptree's stories and essays. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.