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The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

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James Tiptree, Jr.

The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

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  • 4.50 ·
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  • 0 Currently reading
  • 3 Have read

A biography of the noted science fiction author James Tiptree Jr, which was the pseudonym of Alice B. Sheldon.

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Publisher
Picador
Language
English
Pages
545

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Cover of: James Tiptree, Jr
James Tiptree, Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
2015, St. Martin's Press
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Cover of: James Tiptree, Jr.
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
June 12, 2007, Picador
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Cover of: James Tiptree, Jr.
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
August 8, 2006, St. Martin's Press
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James Tiptree, Jr: the double life of Alice B. Sheldon
2006, St. Martin's Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Who is Tiptree, What is He? Page 1 1. The Innocent Adventuress Page 9 2. Africa (1921-22) Page 17 3. Childhood Page 26 4. Cannibals at Home (1924-25) Page 35 5. Celebrity (1925-28) Page 44 6. Girls' School (1929-30) Page 54 7. Like a Du Maurier Heroine (1931) Page 63 8. Ambition (1931-1933) Page 71 9. "We Have Found It Quite Impossible to Persuade Her to Lead a Normal Life" (1933-34) Page 77 10. Love Trouble (1935-36) Page 90 11. Sex and Arguing (1936-40) Page 104 12. War Fever (1941-42) Page 116 13. Fort Des Moines (1942-43) Page 127 14. In a Pentagon Basement (1944) Page 137 15. Ting (1945) Page 149 16. Going Underground (1946-47) Page 162 17. Running a Chicken Hatchery in New Jersey (1948-52) Page 175 18. The Agency (1952-55) Page 190 19. A Disappearance and a Return (1955) Page 202 20. Learning to See (1956-59) Page 210 21. Chez Women (1950s) Page 220 22. Predoctoral Research Grant No. 10,907 (1960-62) Page 228 23. Rat Science (1963-67) Page 236 24. The Birth of a Writer (1967) Page 246 25. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Spock (1968) Page 257 26. First Contact (1969) Page 269 27. The Yucatán (1970) Page 285 28. A Decadent Intellectual Faked Up in a Woodman's Shirt (1971) Page 295 29. Friendships (1971-73) Page 308 30. The Women Men Don't See (1972) Page 320 31. A Glass Getting Ready to Crack (1973) Page 333 32. "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" (1973-74) Page 347 33. A Tin Rocket (1974) Page 364 34. A Sensitive Man (1974-75) Page 379 35. Depression (1975-76) Page 393 36. Mary's Death (1976) Page 405 37. Tiptree Revealed (1976) Page 414 38. "I Live In My Body As In an Alien Artifact" (1977) Page 422 39. Writing Again (1979-81) Page 437 40. Love is the Plan the Plan is Death (1982-87) Page 446 Acknowledgments Page 461 Note on Sources Page 465 Works by Alice B. Sheldon Page 467 Notes Page 473 Bibliography Page 521 Index Page 525

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
545
Dimensions
8.1 x 5.4 x 1.2 inches
Weight
15.2 ounces

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OL9459680M
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jamestiptreejrdo0000phil
ISBN 10
0312426941
ISBN 13
9780312426941
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