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"Tiptree to Friends " by Alice Sheldon, from Locus #220 (April 1979)

scfeldman@... — Sun, 19 May 2013 01:39:16 GMT

Hi All, The following is from Locus Issue 220, Vol. 12, no. 3 (April 1979), page 6. (I have stored this file, along with a scan of the magazine's cover and a

The description of the monster in Koji Suzuki's short story, "Adrift

scfeldman@... — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:21:54 GMT

For those unfamiliar with Koji Suzuki (author of the novel Ringu and the short story "Floating Water," from which the films The Ring and Dark Water derive) and

Comments about all three Tales of the Quintana Roo

scfeldman@... — Sat, 18 May 2013 21:07:34 GMT

"What Came Ashore at Lirios," the first story in Tales of the Quintana Roo, was really quite affecting. It has a great sense of place, and palpable

"Good Night, Sweethearts" and "Collision," from The Starry Rift

scfeldman@... — Wed, 15 May 2013 01:46:11 GMT

My immediately previous commentary, on the first story in The Starry Rift, which is called "The Only Neat Thing to Do," was a bit too spoiler-y, I think, so

"The Only Neat Thing to D," from The Starry Rift

scfeldman@... — Wed, 08 May 2013 00:41:32 GMT

The first story in The Starry Rift, "The Only Neat Thing to Do," tells the story of Coati Cass, a teenage girl who, exploring space deeper than she is supposed

Re: FLT in Brightness Falls from the Air and in Melissa Scott's Shad

Krystian — Thu, 02 May 2013 21:09:01 GMT

That is very interesting. I took a cognitive linguistic approach to time travel and made sure to include a lot of Tiptree for my case studies. It's not your

FLT in Brightness Falls from the Air and in Melissa Scott's Shadow M

scfeldman@... — Thu, 02 May 2013 18:27:32 GMT

Re: [The World of James Tiptree Jr] Some observations about Brightness Falls from the Air ... The only things that come to mind about such in Brightness Falls

Re: Some observations about Brightness Falls from the Air

Krystian — Thu, 02 May 2013 08:42:57 GMT

I think you will be fine with "The Starry Rift." "Brightness Falls" gave me a lot of material for my master's on concepts of time in science fiction. Kr ...

Some observations about Brightness Falls from the Air

scfeldman@... — Thu, 02 May 2013 06:57:35 GMT

I just finished reading Brightness Falls from the Air, and let me tell you, the second half was quite the ordeal: 130 pages of suspense, with 82 pages of them

Re: Text and Imagery from Locus #318, with "James Tiptree, Jr. Dead"

tiptreebio — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:39:33 GMT

Thanks! Bear in mind that when this was written, the SF world didn't know all that much about Alice Sheldon's life. It's good but has a few minor inaccuracies.

Text and Imagery from Locus #318, with "James Tiptree, Jr. Dead" on

scfeldman@... — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:53:22 GMT

Hi, I recently obtained a copy of Locus 318, the issue which has the words, "James Tiptree, Jr. Dead" on the cover, and was going to scan in the text, only to

Neat Sheets: The Poetry of James Tiptree, Jr. currently available, c

scfeldman@... — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:03:52 GMT

Copies of the 1996 chapbook Neat Sheets: The Poetry of James Tiptree, Jr. are currently available directly from Tachyon at

Re: Tiptree in German

Krystian — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:15:58 GMT

Awesome! Thanks for the update. Did they say anything interesting about the process of getting there? E.g. had there been interest in her work (e.g. fans

Re: Two stories from 1981: "Out of the Everywhere" and "Excursion Fa

scfeldman@... — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:00:42 GMT

On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:29:49 -0000 tiptreebio ... You're welcome. When I wrote my comments about "Excursion Fare," I had forgotten

Re: Two stories from 1981: "Out of the Everywhere" and "Excursion Fa

tiptreebio — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:29:52 GMT

Stephe, thanks for all your postings about Tiptree's work. Interesting stuff. Julie