History Creator / JamesTiptreeJr

* DownerEnding: Her stories often end with the main characters losing all hope or dying.

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 in 1968's ''Birth of A Salesman'', which was published in the March issue of ''Magazine/{{Analog}}'' (then known as ''Analog Science Fact and Fiction'').

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, or in any literature for that manner, Tiptree debuted her first story in 1968's ''Birth of A Salesman'', which was published in the March issue of ''Magazine/{{Analog}}'' (then known as ''Analog Science Fact and Fiction'').

* TimeTravel: 'The Man Who Walked Home' is about a man thrown back and forward in time by an anomaly.
* TheFederation: Future humans are typically united under the same banner in most stories, but she tends to depict us as violent brutes toward any aliens that come our way.

* TimeTravel: 'The Man Who Walked Home' is about a man thrown back and forward in time by an anomaly.

* BrotherSisterIncest: In 'A Momentary Taste of Being', Aaron, the protagonist, thinks back to a summer in which he took his 13-year-old sister's virginity when he was 15. He still fantasizes about her while both are working aboard the research ship they're both assigned to in the present.

* {{Gendercide}}: In 'The Screwfly Solution', a husband and wife write letters to each other as the men of the world begin an unexplained campaign of mass femicide around the world.

''Her Smoke Rose Up Forever'', compiled in 1990, is an omnibus of her most famous short stories that explore themes of [[{{Misogyny}} misogyny]], sex, alien encounters and metaphysical experiences. Many of these narratives are from the perspectives of oppressed women or weak-willed men.

* {{Cyberpunk}}: ''The Girl Who Was Plugged In'' is a 1974 novella about P. Burke, a suicidal teenage girl with Cushing's Disease, who's selected by a corporation to be their 'Remote Operator'. Put bluntly: through a satellite link, Burke controls Delphi, an attractive blonde girl born without a functioning brain after being extracted as modified fetus from an artificial womb. Burke/Delphi is used to sell products to the masses. Take into account this was a ''full decade'' before William Gibson's ''{{Neuromancer}}'' and the cyberpunk genre took off.

''Her Smoke Rose Up Forever'', compiled in 1990, is an omnibus of her most famous short stories that explore themes of [[Misogyny misogyny]], sex, alien encounters and metaphysical experiences. Many of these narratives are from the perspectives of oppressed women or weak-willed men.

''Her Smoke Rose Up Forever'', compiled in 1990, is an omnibus of her most famous short stories that explore themes of {{Misogyny misogyny}}, sex, alien encounters and metaphysical experiences. Many of these narratives are from the perspectives of oppressed women or weak-willed men.

''Her Smoke Rose Up Forever'', compiled in 1990, is an omnibus of her most famous short stories that explore themes of misogyny, sex, alien encounters and metaphysical experiences. Many of these narratives are from the perspectives of oppressed women or weak-willed men.

She continued writing her stories as James Tiptree Jr., and sometimes as Raccoona Sheldon, from the late 60s to the mid-70s, while refusing to meet her fans in public. In 1977, Tiptree's identity was finally exposed, leading many of the writers who assumed her to be male to hang their heads in embarrassment. Despite this, Tiptree remained a respected contributor to the field and would continue to write until her tragic suicide pact in 1987 with her husband, Huntingdon Sheldon, following years of depression and physical health issues.

* Gendercide: In 'The Screwfly Solution', a husband and wife write letters to each other as the men of the world begin an unexplained campaign of mass femicide around the world.

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

* InterspeciesRomance: In ''With Delicate Mad Hands'', an ugly human woman with a large pig-like nose falls in love with an alien on a planet that's lethal to humans.
* 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]].]]
* TimeTravel: ''The Man Who Walked Home'' is about a man thrown back and forward in time by an anomaly.

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

* TimeTravel: 'The Man Who Walked Home' is about a man thrown back and forward in time by an anomaly.

* InterspeciesRomance: In ''With Delicate Mad Hands'', an ugly human woman with a large pig-like nose falls in love with an alien on a world that's lethal to humans.

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* LadyLand: In ''Houston, Houston, Do You Read?'', three male astronauts discover that their circumsolar mission around the sun has left them 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]].]]

* LadyLand: In ''Houston, Houston, Do You Read?'', three male astronauts discover that their circumsolar mission around the sun has left them 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]].

* {{Cyberpunk}}: ''The Girl Who Was Plugged In'' is a 1974 novella about P. Burke, a suicidal teenage girl with Cushing's Disease, who's selected by a corporation to be their 'Remote Operator'. Put bluntly: through a satellite link, Burke controls Delphi, an attractive blonde girl born without a functioning brain after being extracted as modified fetus from an artificial womb. Burke/Delphi is used to sell products to the masses. Take into account this was a ''full decade'' before William Gibson's {{Neuromancer}}.

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