History Creator / JamesTiptreeJr

* LadyLand: In 'Houston, Houston, Do You Read?', three male astronauts on a circumsolar mission around the sun are left stranded in space. Attempting to contact NASA, they're shocked when a group of women answer back, only to then discover that [[spoiler:centuries have passed on Earth, a virus has killed off most of the world population, followed by mass chaos and a reformed society.]] However, upon interacting with the women aboard another spacecraft, they finally learn that [[spoiler: the plague targeted only the men, leaving a race of women that survive via [[CloningBlues cloning themselves using DNA from the 11,000 women who survived]].]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Howie in "Beam Us Home", which is a ShoutOut to ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Howie lives on present-day Earth which becomes increasingly violent and militarized through his lifetime. He feels that ''Star Trek'' is real, or rather that it reflects some kind of reality that he may have been sent from, is sometimes in touch with, and will one day return to. At the very end, he does.

** 'And I Awoke and Found Me Here on The Cold Hill's Side' is about men being addicted to sex with alien females and the societal issues it brings.

Alice Bradley Sheldon (August 24, 1915 - May 19, 1987), better known in SciFi circles by her pen name James Tiptree Jr., was one of the most popular writers of feminist ScienceFiction. Writing at a time when women were heavily discouraged from participating in science fiction, [[StayInTheKitchen or in any literature for that manner]], Tiptree debuted her first story, 1968's ''Birth of A Salesman'', which was published in the March issue of ''Magazine/{{Analog}}'' (then known as ''Analog Science Fact and Fiction'').

* AnyoneCanDie

** Tiptree was a {{Trekkie}} par excellence. She wrote a poetic letter to Nimoy about his portrayal of Spock. On August 28, 1968 she submitted directly to producer Gene Roddenberry a script called "The Nowhere People." It was returned unread on September 20, with a letter stating that the studio could not "read or consider unsolicited literary material."[[note]]She should have tried again in the third season, when they were accepting work from fans -- "The Tholian Web" and "The Empath", among others -- and women writers were especially welcomed.[[/note]] She corresponded with her editors and with other ''Star Trek'' writers about how to get it on the show. Meanwhile, she created stories about her own starship and crew. Only "Happiness is a Warm Spaceship" was ever published, in ''If'' for November 1969. "The Nowhere People", renamed "Meet Me At Infinity", was picked up by the fanzine ''[[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Eridani_Triad Eridani Triad]]'' and published in issue 3 in 1972. It is in [[https://archive.org/details/trent_0116404118261 a collection of Tiptree's otherwise unpublished works at the Internet Archive]].
** "With Delicate Mad Hands" meticulously details how Carol (an otherwise beautiful woman with a deformed pig-like nose) does this, excelling at science so she can join the space program and overcoming all that stands in the way of her ultimate goal, a fantasied "pig planet" that is actually real; a woman from that world has been telepathically calling her since they were both children. This is a Tiptree story, so [[spoiler:the planet (actually a brown dwarf star) has lethal radiation and she only lives a few days once she leaves her ship, but in that time she experiences delight, communication, wonder, acceptance and love.]] And the planet's people gain knowledge to add to ''their'' space program -- more like SETI, but via telepathic "star calling".

* AfterTheEnd: Both 'The Man Who Walked Home' and 'Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled Of Light!' are set after an apocalyptic event. Though in case of the latter, it turns out that [[spoiler:the protagonist is hallucinating (or foreseeing?) the post-apocalyptic landscape because of the electric shocks she was given at a mental institution.]]

** In 'Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled Of Light!', a woman believes she's working as a mail carrier in the [[Standard Post-Apocalyptic Setting aftermath of a terrible war]] which left a world without men, back to 19th-century tech, filled with peace and friendship as the "sisters" rebuild. Tiptree leaves it ambiguous whether it's a vision of the future, or the extremely detailed hallucination of a woman in the modern world who went insane after [[ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture shock treatments]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Howie in "Beam Us Home", which is a ShoutOut to ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. Howie lives on present-day Earth which becomes increasingly violent and militarized through his lifetime. He feels that ''Star Trek'' is real, or rather that it reflects some kind of reality that he may have been sent from, is sometimes in touch with, and will one day return to. At the very end, he is. Tiptree was wild about the show and wrote a letter to Nimoy about his portrayal of Spock. She had a script for the show, "[[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Meet_Me_at_Infinity Meet Me At Infinity]]", but it was rejected because she'd sent it directly, without an agent. It was picked up by the fanzine ''[[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Eridani_Triad Eridani Triad]]'' and published in issue 3 in 1972.

** In 'Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled Of Light!', a woman believes she's working as a mail carrier in the aftermath of a terrible war which left a world without men, back to 19th-century tech, filled with peace and friendship as the "sisters" rebuild. Tiptree leaves it ambiguous whether it's a vision of the future, or the extremely detailed hallucination of a woman in the modern world who went insane and had [[ElectroconvulsiveTherapyIsTorture shock treatments]] after her baby died.

* PoliceAreUseless: In 'Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled With Light', [[spoiler:the police are so amused by the runaway girl's delusions that they let her walk away, ''twice''! This leads to the story's infamous DownerEnding]].

* AfterTheEnd: Both 'The Man Who Walked Home' and 'Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled With Light!' are set after an apocalyptic event. Though in case of the latter, it turns out that [[spoiler:the protagonist is hallucinating (or foreseeing?) the post-apocalyptic landscape because of the electric shocks she was given at a mental institution.]]