TY - ABST T1 - "Backward, Turn Backward." Y1 - 1988 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) ED - George Zebrowski (b. 1945) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Love story with a background of a future dystopia--a deeply divided society with the middle class and above living in enclaves.

JF - Synergy: New Science Fiction PB - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich CY - San Diego, CA VL - Number 2 N1 -

Rpt. in her Crown of Stars (New York: Tor, 1988), 208-70. 

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James Tiptree Jr. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "All This and Heaven Too" Y1 - 1985 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A humorous story set in an ecological eutopia, Ecologia-Bella, that is contrasted with an environmental dystopia, Pluvia-Acida. The eutopia uses clean electric power, has full employment, and the people care for the land, the flora and fauna, and each other. The dystopia is capitalist with a high rate of industrial accidents, extreme pollution, no trees, little vegetation, and a good supply, of rats and cockroaches but few other animals.

JF - Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine VL - 9.13 N1 -

Rpt. in her Crown of Stars (New York: Tor, 1988), 96-129. U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1990), 96-129.

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Illus. Daniel R. Horne

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James Tiptree, Jr. [pseud.].

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Merril, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Screwfly Solution” Y1 - 1977 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

The story is about the Sons of Adam, a growing religious movement that kills women.

JF - Analog Science Fiction Science Fact VL - 96.6 N1 -

Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 435-53; Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology. Ed. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 83-101; in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 287-310, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 184-86; and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 291-320, with a biographical note on 465-467 and a note on the text on 486.

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Raccoona Sheldon [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) ED - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) ED - Susan Janice Anderson KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia composed only of women, mostly clones but with a few new genotypes still being created, confronts men returning from a long space voyage. The eutopia came because an epidemic caused widespread infertility and no male babies were born. It has a small population and is without hierarchy or government and, while it has space travel, it is based more on agriculture than technology. The three men include an extreme chauvinist, a Christian who believes that God established a patriarchal system, and one man who struggles to understand and accept the situation.

JF - Aurora: Beyond Equality PB - Fawcett Books CY - Greenwich, CT N1 -

Rpt. in Star Songs of an Old Primate (New York: Ballantine Books, 1978), 164-226; in The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels. Comp. Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg (New York: Arbor House, 1980), 582-632; under the title of the story New York: Tor, 1989 as part of Tor Double Novel # 11 bound with Joanna Russ’s Souls; and in her Her Smoke Rose Up Forever ([Sauk City, WI:] Arkham House, 1990), 168-222.

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James Tiptree Jr. [pseud.]

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light." Y1 - 1976 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) ED - Susan Janice Anderson ED - Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Future dystopia of violence directed particularly at women.

JF - Aurora: Beyond Equality PB - Fawcett Books CY - Greenwich, CT N1 -

Rpt. in James Tiptree, Jr. [pseud.], Her Smoke Rose Up Forever: The Great Years of James Tiptree, Jr. (Suak City, WI: Arkham House, 1990), 149-67; and in Feminist Philosophy and Science Fiction: Utopias and Dystopias. Ed. Judith A. Little (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), 247-63.

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Raccoona Sheldon [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" Y1 - 1973 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) ED - Robert Silverberg (b. 1935) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A eutopia that outlaws any misrepresentation of a product (advertising) is being successfully undermined by corporate interests.

JF - New Dimensions PB - Nelson Doubleday CY - Garden City, NY VL - 3 SN - 978-1-59853-732-1 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Tor, 1989. Tor Double bound with Vonda N[eel] McIntyre (1948-2019). Screwtop [Originally published in The Crystal Ship: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1976), 151-208]; in her Her Smoke Rose Up Forever ([Sauk City, WI:] Arkham House, 1990), 44-79; in Cybersex. Ed. Richard Glyn Jones (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996), 178-213; in The Ultimate Cyberpunk. Ed. Pat Cadigan (New York: ibooks, 2002), 74-120; in The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3. Ed. Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith (San Francisco, CA: Tachyon Publications, 2007), 151-90; and in The Future is Female! More Classic Science Fiction by Women Volume 2: The 1970s. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2023), 135-184, with a biographical note on 469-471 and notes on the text on 483-485.

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James Tiptree, Jr. [pseud.]

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O, PSt

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side” Y1 - 1972 A1 - [Alice Bradley] [Sheldon] (1915-87) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia in which humans become addicted to contact with aliens. 

JF - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction VL - 42.3 (250) SN - 9780141188928 N1 -

Rpt. in A Science Fiction Omnibus. Ed. Brian Aldiss (London: Penguin Books, 2007), 52-60.

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James Tiptree, Jr.

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