#tiptree

[fullibooked]

James Tiptree Jr aka Alice Sheldon is (in my opinion) the pinnacle of science fiction short stories.

The worlds and stories she's created have made me laugh, stopped me thinking, started me thinking, broke me down to tears, and lightened my heart.

The first collection of her work I read, Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, is one of my all time favourite books. This collection, 10,000 Lightyears From Home, was perhaps lighter, more laugh inducing, than the last. But just as well crafted and just as unique and I loved it just So Much.

[voyaging-too]

The Shelved by Genre guys are doing an episode on William Gibson, and they had a brief detour on the precursors of the cyberpunk genre, including the iconic Tiptree short story "The Girl Who Was Plugged In", which low-key anticipates cyberpunk but also the toxicity of 2010s social media influencer culture as early as 1974, somehow. And the guys praised this short story, but also made a disclaimer that it had some outdated views and "wasn't very kind to fat women." And that's a valid read, but also what, no.

Yes, the story uses some painful language, but it isn't unkind to a fat women, it is describing how the world isn't very kind to fat women and ugly women and ugly fat women which is all women because what are thin pretty women but fat ugly women in disguise. The Girl Who Was Plugged In made me feel seen like nothing before or since, because it is very rare that someone dares to write about an ugly woman who isn't secretly beautiful, a true girl Quasimodo, a repulsive gross monster, a degendered and dehumanized lump, and ask, well, how does she feel about that?

[spacenoirdetective]

Chris Foss, cover for "Ten Thousand Light Years From Home" by James Tiptree Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon), 1973

[mercymornsimpathizer]

the last flight of doctor ain by james tiptree jr...if u even care...

[queenlua]

"Think of us as opossums, Don. Did you know there are opossums living all over? Even in New York City."

[liesmyth]

#yours is a generation of girls that do not have to do this #and frankly I recommend you don’t #james tiptree jr you were so real for writing #that a freed population would find the literature of the past#so unrelatable #a bit pathetic #the fuck were they on about honestly #we don’t appreciate the sufferings of our mothers #and I hope our daughters will think ours are unrealistic

obsessed with these tags by @xn3city on this post. We should talk about Tiptree... I need everyone to know I love Tiptree SO much.

Also you really put into words why I think everyone should read older feminist literature. Yes, it's not wholly relevant in this day and age. Yes, that is the point.

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

showing the opening paragraph of "The Man Who Walked Home" to a fanfic writer and instantly killing them

[odo-apologist]

One of literary history's greatest tragedies is that James Tiptree Jr./Alice Sheldon and Joanna Russ never met in person and had incredible lesbian sex

[the-rad-menace]

Hello dear women of my phone. Please read "The Screwfly Solution" by Alice Sheldon. It's only about 20 pages. I read it for the first time about a decade ago and I think about it often.

Link to PDF download.

[magic-lands]

Oh, Randle || liminal dreamcore backrooms vision no. 8

[crownedstoat]

Tonight’s libation is a Gin Gimlet

2 oz Balfour London Dry Gin

1 oz lime juice

1/2 oz simple syrup

1 bar spoon Wilkin & sons Ltd Tiptree lime marmalade

Shaken with ice and strained into coupe garnishing with a lime wheel

[frances-kafka]

can I just live my artistic life as a man? Like James Tiptree Jr or the various historic women creators named George?

[powerfulkicks]

ohhh another good one is that one the twilight zone episode was based on? the one with the kid with mind powers who terrorizes his whole town. that one's good as fuck and i think the short story is better than the twilight zone episode which is really fucking good by the way

it's a good life by jerome bixby is the name btw

[hawazilian]

[fllagellant]

Possessed by something ( brain only wishes to write post reaper joker/vega/cortez content )

[queenlua]

every time i mention an opssum in my fiction, i am quietly & fervently willing the reader to understand it as a reference (to James Tiptree Jr.'s "The Women Men Don't See") & hope they then nod agreeably with their Enhanced Understanding Of The Story