History Creator / JamesTiptreeJr

* NotSoDifferent: In 'We Who Stole the Dream', [[spoiler:the Joilani refugees who return to their homeworld begin to notice that their fellow countrymen are not only now taller, but are becoming increasingly like the human oppressors the refugees plotted and worked so hard to escape]].

* NotSoDifferent: In 'We Who Stole the Dream', [[spoiler:the Joilani refugees who return to their homeworld begin to notice that their fellow countrymen are not only now taller, but are becoming increasingly human]].

* BlessedWithSuck: Snow in "She Waits For All Men Born". She has a HealingFactor but [[spoiler: it comes from reflexively sucking the life-force out of whoever's closest to her whenever she gets hurt. There is no way for her to turn this off, control it, or choose who she uses it on, and she will outlive ''everything''.]]

* {{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 a modified fetus from an artificial womb. Burke/Delphi is what we would call an influencer today; her sole function is 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.

* 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 ''[[Eridani Triad]]'' and published in issue 3.
** "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.

* 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.

* {{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 a 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.

* 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 the post-apocalyptic landscape because of the electric shocks she was given at a mental institution.]]

* {{Deconstruction}}: Her stories with pulp and space opera settings are typically more [[DarkerAndEdgier somber in tone and execution]]. 'Heroic' characters are presented as either evil or dysfunctional and there's a tragic element in how events unfold.

* 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.

* ForcedSleep: In 'Time-Sharing Angel', a teenager's fear of overpopulation causes a visiting alien to induce alternating sleep cycles between the world's children. The youngest would remain awake and would switch with their sleeping siblings and vice versa for days on end. Of course, this has psychological consequences on their mothers (who can't give birth properly anymore) and the global population declines.

* NotSoDifferent: In 'We Who Stole The Dream', [[spoiler:the Joilani refugees who return to their homeworld begin to notice that their fellow countrymen are not only now taller, but are becoming increasingly human]].

* NotSoDifferent: In 'We Who Stole The Dream', [[spoilers:the Joilani refugees who return to their homeworld begin to notice that their fellow countrymen are becoming increasingly human]].

NotSoDifferent: In 'We Who Stole The Dream', [[spoilers:the Joilani refugees who return to their homeworld begin to notice that their fellow countrymen are becoming increasingly human]].

* Deconstruction: Her stories with pulp and space opera settings are typically more [[DarkerAndEdgier somber in tone and execution]]. 'Heroic' characters are presented as either evil or dysfunctional and there's a tragic element in how events unfold.

* ProductPlacement: In the future of the ''The Girl Who Was Plugged In'', corporations are banned from advertising (the word 'ad' itself is considered a negative one), so they resort to using the media's coverage of celebrities using their products.

* "And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways"

* "The Man Who Walked Home"
* "The Milk of Paradise"

* "Press Until the Bleeding Stops"

* "The Girl Who Was Plugged In"

* "The Screwfly Solution"

* "Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo"

* "Literature/BirthOfASalesman"
* "Literature/ADayLikeAnyOther"
* "{{Literature/Fault}}"
* "Literature/HappinessIsAWarmSpaceship"
* "Literature/TheMotherShip"
* "Literature/PleaseDontPlayWithTheTimeMachine"
* "Literature/PupaKnowsBest"

* "Literature/BeamUsHome"
* "Literature/TheLastFlightOfDoctorAin"
* "Literature/FaithfulToThee, Terra, InOurFashion"
* "Literature/TheSnowsAreMelted, TheSnowsAreGone"
* "Literature/YourHaploidHeart

* "Literature/ImTooBigButILoveToPlay
* "Literature/LastNightAndEveryNight"
* "Literature/TheManDoorsSaidHelloTo"
* "Literature/TheNightbloomingSaurian"

* "Literature/TheLastFlightofDoctorAin"

-->-- '''James Tiptree Jr.''' [[note]]Or at least attributed to him.[[/note]]

* {{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 everywhere.