![]() ![]() Her two novels Up the Walls of the World and Brightness Falls from the Air are both remarkable transfigurations of stock space opera material - the former deals with a vast destroying being, sympathetic aliens at risk of destruction by it and human telepaths trying to make contact across the gulf of stars. Much of her work, even at its most tragic, has an attractively ironic tone which sometimes becomes straightforwardly comedy - it is important to stress that Tiptree's deep seriousness never becomes sombre or pompous. from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders. ![]() Even good men are complicit in women's oppression, as in her most famous stories 'The Women Men Don't See' and 'Houston, Houston, Do you Read?' or in ecocide. Buy Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr. h/HerSmokeRoseUp.html Latest Her Smoke Rose up Forever James Tiptree Jr Arkham House 1990 A book review by Danny Yee 1994 Her Smoke Rose up Foreveris an anthology of eighteen science fiction stories compiled from the published collections of James Tiptree, Jr. Sheldon's best stories combine radical feminism with a tough-minded tragic view of life even virtuous characters are exposed as unwitting beneficiaries of disgusting socio-economic systems. Most of her books are collections of short stories, of which Her Smoke Rose Up Forever is considered to be her best selection. James Tiptree Jr (1915-1987) Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon wrote most of her fiction as James Tiptree, Jr - she was making a point about sexist assumptions and also keeping her US government employers from knowing her business. ![]()
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