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BRIGHTNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR.
[New York]: Tor, [1985]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "A thriller in which a lonely outpost of galactic civilization is taken over by gangsters while the debris of a nova comes ever closer ... Seemingly modeled on the 1948 film 'Key Largo.'" - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1134. 1986 Hugo nominee. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
BYTE BEAUTIFUL EIGHT SCIENCE FICTION STORIES.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1985. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects eight stories, several first published here in a book, with introduction by Michael Bishop.
CROWN OF STARS.
New York: Tor, [1988]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects ten stories. "Mainly late stories by this talented author who committed suicide in 1987. Most of them, such as 'Morality Meat,' a latter-day SF variation on Swift's 'A Modest Proposal,' have an over-the-top frantic quality. Often powerful, but not Tiptree's best." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 82. "There is a more strident, polemic tone, unrefined into the art which made her earlier stories so dazzling." - Dan Chow, Locus. "Tiptree's most effective stories seem motivated by outrage, using SF motifs to set up situations in which the injustices and tragedies of our world are magnified. Scientism, cruelty, and sexism are all attacked." - Michael M. Levy and Brian Stableford. Hartwell, 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
OUT OF THE EVERYWHERE AND OTHER EXTRAORDINARY VISIONS.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1981]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Books 28485. Paperback original. Tiptree's fourth collection of short fiction. Collects ten stories, including the award winner "The Screwfly Solution." Two stories, "Out of the Everywhere" and "With Delicate Mad Hands," are original to this volume. "The fourth gathering of shorter work from this remarkably intense author's best period, the 70s. 'Her most effective stories seem motivated by outrage-Brian Stableford'." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 270.
STAR SONGS OF AN OLD PRIMATE.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1978]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Books 25417. Paperback original. Introduction by Ursula K. LeGuin. The author's third story collection. Collects seven stories, including "Houston, Houston Do You Read? (Hugo and Nebula award winner)," "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever," and "A Momentary Taste of Being." "Powerful, heavily emotional tales. By the time this appeared, the author's true identity had been revealed and she was hailed as a leading feminist sf writer of the decade. "The stories she wrote from 1970-1977 - when her health began to fail and her secret identity finally collapsed - comprise the finest and most moving single spate of creative energy the field has ever seen" - John Clute." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 346.
TEN THOUSAND LIGHT-YEARS FROM HOME.
New York: Ace Books, [1973]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ace Book 80180. Paperback original. Introduction by Harry Harrison. The author's first book and first story collection. Collects fifteen stories. "Fifteen sf stories, about a third of them slick comedies from the author's debut year (1968), the remainder increasingly powerful and anguished works of the sort which made Tiptree the most fashionable American sf author of the early 1970s. High points include 'And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" and 'Painwise' - stories which successfully fuse slickness with soul." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 366.
WARM WORLDS AND OTHERWISE ... With an Introduction by Robert Silverberg.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1975]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Ballantine Books 24380. Paperback original. Tiptree's second collection of short fiction and second book. Collects twelve stories, including the award winners "The Girl Who was Plugged In (Hugo award winner)" and "Love is the Plan, the Plan is Death (Nebula award winner)." "Twelve furiously imaginative, occasionaly explosive SF stories, the best of which are quite brilliant." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 410. Silverberg in his introduction refers to the author's "masculine writing," at this time no one was aware Tiptree was a pseudonym for Alice Sheldon.
HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc, [1990]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Introduction by John Clute. Collects eighteen stories. "More than 500 pages of the best fiction of one of the best short story writers in the genre..." - Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1135. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1135.
TALES OF THE QUINTANA ROO.
[Sauk City, WI]: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., [1986]. jacket and interior illustrations by Glennray Tutor, cloth. First edition. Collects three supernatural tales with east shore Yucatan Peninsula setting. Winner of the 1987 World Fantasy Award for best anthology / collection.