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Indeholder "Robert Silverberg: Who Is Tiptree, What Is He?", "All the Kinds of Yes", "The Milk of Paradise", "And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways", "The Last Flight of Dr. Ain", "Amberjack", "Through a Lass Darkly", "The Girl Who Was Plugged In", "The Night-blooming Saurian", "The Women
"Robert Silverberg: Who Is Tiptree, What Is He?" er Silverbergs forsøg på at analysere sig frem til at pseudonymet James Tiptree Jr. selvfølgelig er en mand. Morsomt nok viste det sig kort tid efter offentliggørelsen af forordet at James Tiptree Jr. dækkede over Dr. Alice Raccoona Sheldon.
"All the Kinds of Yes" handler om en alien, der kommer til Jorden og møder Filomena og Barlow og bliver gravid.
"The Milk of Paradise" handler om ???
"And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways" handler om ???
"The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" er en skræmmende beretning om Dr. Ain der fortæller en forsamling af mikrobiologer om den pest, han har udviklet. Den spredes af alle varmblodede dyr, men dræber stort set kun de højere primater. På flyveturen til kongressen har han flittigt brugt sin lille inhalatorspray og fodret fugle med brødkrummer han har med. Fugle er jo varmblodede, som han fortæller sikkerhedsfolkene, da de arresterer ham. For at redde Jorden har han dømt menneskene til undergang.
"Amberjack" handler om kærlighed mellem pigen Rue og et uheldigt anfald af fremsynethed.
"Through a Lass Darkly" handler om ???
"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" handler om ???
"The Night-blooming Saurian" handler om ???
"The Women Men Don't See" handler om et flystyrt, hvor Mrs Persson og hendes datter sammen med en Maya-indianer og en anden mand slipper relativt uskadt fra. De er imidlertid strandet på ubestemt tid, men Mrs Persson og datteren tager et lift på ubestemt tid med et hold aliens, de støder på.
"Fault" handler om en mand, der lemlæster en alien og bliver straffet af dem ved at blive skubbet til, så han tidsmæssigt kommer mere og mere bagud i forhold til resten af verden. Ret grusom straf, men hans handling var også grusom.
"Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" handler om Moggadeet og Leelyloo, der elsker hinanden, hvilket er helt efter planen.
"On the Last Afternoon" handler om en koloni der er i stor fare og måske kan reddes af en noion. Den giver tre ønsker, men de må ikke være andet end helt sikkert ment.
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Men Don't See", "Fault", "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death", "On the Last Afternoon"."Robert Silverberg: Who Is Tiptree, What Is He?" er Silverbergs forsøg på at analysere sig frem til at pseudonymet James Tiptree Jr. selvfølgelig er en mand. Morsomt nok viste det sig kort tid efter offentliggørelsen af forordet at James Tiptree Jr. dækkede over Dr. Alice Raccoona Sheldon.
"All the Kinds of Yes" handler om en alien, der kommer til Jorden og møder Filomena og Barlow og bliver gravid.
"The Milk of Paradise" handler om ???
"And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways" handler om ???
"The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" er en skræmmende beretning om Dr. Ain der fortæller en forsamling af mikrobiologer om den pest, han har udviklet. Den spredes af alle varmblodede dyr, men dræber stort set kun de højere primater. På flyveturen til kongressen har han flittigt brugt sin lille inhalatorspray og fodret fugle med brødkrummer han har med. Fugle er jo varmblodede, som han fortæller sikkerhedsfolkene, da de arresterer ham. For at redde Jorden har han dømt menneskene til undergang.
"Amberjack" handler om kærlighed mellem pigen Rue og et uheldigt anfald af fremsynethed.
"Through a Lass Darkly" handler om ???
"The Girl Who Was Plugged In" handler om ???
"The Night-blooming Saurian" handler om ???
"The Women Men Don't See" handler om et flystyrt, hvor Mrs Persson og hendes datter sammen med en Maya-indianer og en anden mand slipper relativt uskadt fra. De er imidlertid strandet på ubestemt tid, men Mrs Persson og datteren tager et lift på ubestemt tid med et hold aliens, de støder på.
"Fault" handler om en mand, der lemlæster en alien og bliver straffet af dem ved at blive skubbet til, så han tidsmæssigt kommer mere og mere bagud i forhold til resten af verden. Ret grusom straf, men hans handling var også grusom.
"Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" handler om Moggadeet og Leelyloo, der elsker hinanden, hvilket er helt efter planen.
"On the Last Afternoon" handler om en koloni der er i stor fare og måske kan reddes af en noion. Den giver tre ønsker, men de må ikke være andet end helt sikkert ment.
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Collection
Publication
Del Rey (1979), Mass Market Paperback
Description
A wildly imaginative short story collection from one of the greatest female science fiction writers ever Daring, energetic, and struck through with linguistic inventiveness, Warm Worlds and Otherwise is one of the most influential short story collections in all of science fiction, and one of the principle achievements of James Tiptree Jr - the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon. Demonstrating Tiptree's eye for unnerving future dystopias and her unparalleled depiction of strange worlds and mysterious creatures, Warm Worlds and Otherwise also traces a movement toward ground-breaking explorations of sexuality, gender and race. Included in this collection are the Hugo and Nebula award-winning 'The Girl Who was Plugged In' and 'Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death', as well as the extraordinary 'The Women Men Can't See'.… (more)
User reviews
LibraryThing member wjohnston
An interesting, early (her 2nd published book) collection of stories from Tiptree (pseudonym of Alice Sheldon).
At the time of publication, Tiptree's real identity was unknown. There must have been some speculation that Tiptree might be female. In his introduction, Robert Silverberg opines that
After reading these, I had the opposite opinion of Silverberg; to me, they were obviously written by a woman. Of course, I knew going in that Tiptree was female, so I'm unsure how much that shaped my opinion.
I don't know if Tiptree was considered to be a member of the New Wave of SF, but these stories all had a very New Wave feel to me. While the quality varies, I would say these are all at least good, and some excellent. None felt dated to me. (I only make this point because I read this right after finishing a collection from Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore; that collection had a few stories that felt dated, and the quality was very uneven.)
I'm sure I probably read something from Tiptree when I was younger, but I have no memory of it. I think this is a great starting point and it makes me want to read more of her work.
At the time of publication, Tiptree's real identity was unknown. There must have been some speculation that Tiptree might be female. In his introduction, Robert Silverberg opines that
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Tiptree's stories must have been written by a male. (In his view, Austen's novels could only have been written by a female, and Hemingway's work could only have been written by a male; in the same way, Tiptree must be a male.)After reading these, I had the opposite opinion of Silverberg; to me, they were obviously written by a woman. Of course, I knew going in that Tiptree was female, so I'm unsure how much that shaped my opinion.
I don't know if Tiptree was considered to be a member of the New Wave of SF, but these stories all had a very New Wave feel to me. While the quality varies, I would say these are all at least good, and some excellent. None felt dated to me. (I only make this point because I read this right after finishing a collection from Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore; that collection had a few stories that felt dated, and the quality was very uneven.)
I'm sure I probably read something from Tiptree when I was younger, but I have no memory of it. I think this is a great starting point and it makes me want to read more of her work.
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LibraryThing member ragwaine
I haven't finished this collection and no longer own it but it includes the stories listed below. I have included comments for those stories I have read.
All the Kinds of Yes
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Amberjack (So full of flowery metaphors it's unintelligable.)
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And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways
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Fault
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On the Last
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The Girl Who Was Plugged In (Hugo Award 1974)
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The Milk of Paradise (Nebula 1973 - Strange. Bad beginning but then it got a little more understandable. Cool some strange insect-like alien where mother eats father after the father helps mother grow. Original.)
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The Night-blooming Saurian
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The Women Men Don't See
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Through A Lass Darkly
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Love is the Plan the Plan is Death
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The Last Flight of Doctor Ain (Not sure I get it. He's flying around to spread the virus that will kill all humans to save Mother Earth? Much of it is incomprehensible.)
All the Kinds of Yes
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Amberjack (So full of flowery metaphors it's unintelligable.)
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And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways
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Fault
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On the Last
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Afternoon-
The Girl Who Was Plugged In (Hugo Award 1974)
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The Milk of Paradise (Nebula 1973 - Strange. Bad beginning but then it got a little more understandable. Cool some strange insect-like alien where mother eats father after the father helps mother grow. Original.)
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The Night-blooming Saurian
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The Women Men Don't See
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Through A Lass Darkly
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Love is the Plan the Plan is Death
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The Last Flight of Doctor Ain (Not sure I get it. He's flying around to spread the virus that will kill all humans to save Mother Earth? Much of it is incomprehensible.)
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LibraryThing member RobertDay
A notable collection of stories from Tiptree, including 'The women men don't see'. But this book is mainly notable for the introduction by Robert Silverberg, where he categorically and definitively states that the reclusive James Tiptree Jnr. is, despite rumours to the contrary, a man. "...(T)here
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is, for me, something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree's writing" he says. Within a few weeks, Tiptree was identified as a pen-name of Alice Raccoona Sheldon. Though to be fair, the second printing (which I possess) does include a postscript from Silverberg to say "Well, how wrong can you be? And doesn't it just go to show?" Show Less
LibraryThing member librisissimo
Robert Silverberg's introduction reveals that no one in the sf world knew Tiptree was a pseudonymous woman.
Wikipedia: Alice Bradley Sheldon (August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction author better known as James Tiptree, Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death. She
Wikipedia: Alice Bradley Sheldon (August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction author better known as James Tiptree, Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death. She
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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. From 1974 to 1977 she also used the pen name Raccoona Sheldon. .. After the death of Mary Hastings Bradley (her mother) in 1976, "Tiptree" mentioned in a letter that "his" mother, also a writer, had died in Chicago—details that led inquiring fans to find the obituary, with its reference to Alice Sheldon; soon all was revealed. Several prominent science fiction writers suffered some embarrassment. Robert Silverberg had written an introduction to Warm Worlds and Otherwise arguing, from the evidence of stories in that collection, that Tiptree could not possibly be a woman. Harlan Ellison had introduced Tiptree's story in the anthology Again, Dangerous Visions with the opinion that "[Kate] Wilhelm is the woman to beat this year, but Tiptree is the man." Silverberg's article in particular, by taking one side, makes it clear that the sex of Tiptree was a topic of some debate. Show Less
LibraryThing member quondame
The richness and invention of these stories stands out sharply from much of the SF of the late 1960s and early 70s. I appreciate them though I don't really enjoy them. Reading them half a century after they were written in like being immersed in hot house loam and constantly confronting the roots
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1975
Physical description
222 p.; 17.5 cm
ISBN
0345280229 / 9780345280220
Local notes
Omslag: Michael Herring
Omslaget viser en uhyggeligt langstrakt skikkelse, der tilsyneladende overfalder en knælende person, der knælende værger for sig med hænderne
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Side 1: Earth was next seen by a flock of xenologists from Highfeather, who can stand anything. "Intelligence simply hasn't evolved there," they reported. "Social structure is at the level of crude incubation ritual with some migratory clanning. Frankly, it looks unnestworthy. A pesky lot of mammals have clobbered up the place with broken shells. Of interest only to students of pseudo-evolution."
Omslaget viser en uhyggeligt langstrakt skikkelse, der tilsyneladende overfalder en knælende person, der knælende værger for sig med hænderne
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Side 1: Earth was next seen by a flock of xenologists from Highfeather, who can stand anything. "Intelligence simply hasn't evolved there," they reported. "Social structure is at the level of crude incubation ritual with some migratory clanning. Frankly, it looks unnestworthy. A pesky lot of mammals have clobbered up the place with broken shells. Of interest only to students of pseudo-evolution."
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222
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