Tachyon Publications: Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, James Tiptree, Jr.


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			James Tiptree, Jr.

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	James Tiptree, Jr. was born as Alice Bradley in 1915 in Chicago, Illinois. When she began writing science fiction in 1968, she used a pseudonym to maintain her privacy. Alice Bradley Sheldon became the reclusive, enigmatic genius, James Tiptree, Jr. His adventures and writing--gleaned from the details of Sheldon's life--were convincingly masculine; when Sheldon finally revealed herself, her ruse was met with both surprise and delight.

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

by James Tiptree, Jr.

Also by James Tiptree JR.
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Also available
The James Tiptree Award Anthology
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2
The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3

Introduction by Michael Swanwick
Chesley Award-winning Cover art and design by John Picacio

"There is just one great collection of Tiptree's fiction in print, Itzkoff said, The Book is called Her Smoke Rose Up Forever from Tachyon Publications. It contains all of her major short stories."
-New York Times Book Review

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever collects eighteen brilliant short stories from a luminary of the science fiction genre, James Tiptree, Jr. This updated edition is the quintessential Tiptree collection, and contains revisions from the author's original notes. Tiptree's fiction reflects the darkly complex world its author inhabited: exploring the alien among us; the unreliability of perception; love, sex, and death; and
humanity's place in a vast, cold universe.

Read about the excellent new biography of James Tiptree, Jr./Alice Sheldon here

You need to read James Tiptree Jr. If you've never read her, and you've any interest in SF, you need to rectify that anomaly. But even if, like me, you have read her, perhaps a while ago, you need to re-read her. Tachyon's handsomely-produced catch-all collection Her Smoke Rose Up Forever is the perfect place to begin: a lovely piece of book-production, from its attractive John Picacio cover-art through each of its eighteen indispensable stories printed across well-laid-out pages. It's a beaut, and you need to read it. Or to re-read it.
-Strange Horizons

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever showcases what are undoubtedly the best of
Tiptree's stories.
-SF Site

The stories of Alice Sheldon, who wrote as James Tiptree Jr. (Up the
Walls of the World) until her death in 1987, have been heretofore
available mostly in out-of-print collections. Thus the 18 accomplished
stories here will be welcomed by new readers and old fans. "The
Screwfly Solution" describes a chilling, elegant answer to the
population problem. In "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death," the title
tells the tale--species survival insured by imprinted drives--but the
story's force is in its exquisite, lyrical prose and its suggestion
that personal uniqueness is possible even within biological
imperatives. "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" is a future boy-meets-girl
story with a twist unexpected by the players. "The Women Men Don't See"
displays Tiptree's keen insight and ability to depict singularity
within the ordinary. In Hugo and Nebula award-winning "Houston,
Houston, Do You Read?" astronauts flying by the sun slip forward 500
years and encounter a culture that successfully questions gender roles
in ours.
-Publishers Weekly

"One of the first hardbacks I ever bought and still one of my most read."
-Locus