Warm Worlds and Otherwise: James Tiptree (Penguin Science Fiction) - Softcover

Tiptree Jr., James

 
9780241509753: Warm Worlds and Otherwise: James Tiptree (Penguin Science Fiction)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241509750 ISBN 13: 9780241509753
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

'Tiptree's narratives of alien worlds and alienation make up one of science fiction's most vivid and influential bodies of work' The New York Times

This landmark collection of short stories shows the feminist pioneer James Tiptree Jr. at her most inventive and daring. Here a fake girl becomes a living advertisement, women choose alien invaders over the men of Earth, a creature discovers that love means death and a pandemic engulfs the planet.

'Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman - who wrote as a man - as Margaret Atwood' Vox

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James Tiptree Jr, the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon (1915 - 1987) is widely considered to be one of the most influential genre writers of the twentieth century, and a pioneer of feminist science-fiction. Born in Chicago, she worked in the United States Army Air Force as an intelligence officer, where she rose to the rank of Major. She began to write science-fiction under the Tiptree pseudonym in 1967. Her short stories and novellas have received numerous prizes, including multiple Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. She was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012.

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Daring, energetic, and struck through with linguistic inventiveness, Warm Worlds and Otherwise is one of the most influential short story collections in all of science fiction, and one of the principle achievements of James Tiptree Jr - the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon.

Demonstrating Tiptree's eye for unnerving future dystopias and her unparalleled depiction of strange worlds and mysterious creatures, Warm Worlds and Otherwise also traces a movement toward ground-breaking explorations of sexuality,

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241509750
ISBN 13 
9780241509753
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
272
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/

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Madrid
Madrid
Spanien

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