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Book Title: Byte Beautiful: Eight Science Fiction Stories The author of the book: James Tiptree Jr. Edition: Doubleday Books Date of issue: January 1st 1985 ISBN: 0385196539 ISBN 13: 9780385196536 Language: English Format files: PDF The size of the: 714 KB City - Country: No data Loaded: 1798 times Reader ratings: 4.5

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Short stories by award-winning science fiction writer, James Triptree, Jr. Stories include adventures in outer space and the world of the future. All but one of the stories, "Excursion Fare", have previously appeared in earlier short story collections by James Tiptree, Jr.

Table of contents:

- Introduction by Michael Bishop
- With Delicate Mad Hands
- Beam Us Home
- Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death
- The Man Who Walked Home
- Your Faces, O my Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!
- The Peacefulness of Vivyan
- Excursion Fare
- I'll Be Waiting For You When the Swimming Pool is Empty.

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"James Tiptree, Jr." was born Alice Bradley in Chicago in 1915. Her mother was the writer Mary Hastings Bradley; her father, Herbert, was a lawyer and explorer. Throughout her childhood she travelled with her parents, mostly to Africa, but also to India and Southeast Asia. Her early work was as an artist and art critic. During World War II she enlisted in the Army and became the first American female photointelligence officer. In Germany after the war, she met and married her commanding officer, Huntington D. Sheldon. In the early 1950s, both Sheldons joined the then-new CIA; he made it his career, but she resigned in 1955, went back to college, and earned a Ph.D. in experimental psychology.

At about this same time, Alli Sheldon started writing science fiction. She wrote four stories and sent them off to four different science fiction magazines. She did not want to publish under her real name, because of her CIA and academic ties, and she intended to use a new pseudonym for each group of stories until some sold. They started selling immediately, and only the first pseudonym—"Tiptree" from a jar of jelly, "James" because she felt editors would be more receptive to a male writer, and "Jr." for fun—was needed. (A second pseudonym, "Raccoona Sheldon," came along later, so she could have a female persona.)

Tiptree quickly became one of the most-respected writers in the field, winning the Hugo Award for "The Girl Who was Plugged In" and "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?," and the Nebula Award for "Julie Phillips wrote her biography, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

Here is a link to a site which now awards Science Fiction authors and their books under Alice's pen name for literature to represent gender issues within the field of writing.
http://www.tiptree.org/

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