James Tiptree Jr.

¿Qué ocurriría si en la Tierra no quedaran hombres? ¿Cómo podría ser el primer contacto con una raza alienígena a la que no puedes ver? ¿Qué pasaría si los hombres no tuvieran empatía con las mujeres? Estas y otras preguntas son las que se plantea Alice B. Sheldon en los tres relatos seleccionados para esta antologia.Con Una mirada a Alice B. Sheldon rescatamos la emblematica figura de esta escritora que paso mas de una decada bajo el seudonimo masculino de James Tiptree, Jr. Esta coleccion contiene los relatos Houston, Houston, ¿me recibes? y Esterilidad forzada, con una nueva traduccion; Lo mejor que podemos hacer, inedito hasta ahora en español, y el ensayo Una mujer escribiendo ciencia ficcion, escrito poco antes de su muerte.En Houston, Houston, ¿me recibes? la nave espacial Pajaro Solar vaga por el espacio despues de que una llamarada solar afecte a su sistema de navegacion. Desesperados, los tres miembros de la tripulacion piden ayuda y, al poco tiempo, comienzan a recibir comunicaciones extrañas. ¿Por que ahora las misiones espaciales estan comandadas por mujeres?En Esterilidad forzada, una extraña secta se expande por el planeta como la polvora. Los Hijos de Adan, sumidos en una histeria colectiva, cometen violentos asesinatos contra las mujeres. La prensa los trata como casos aislados, pero, ¿lo son en realidad?Coati lo tiene todo preparado para escaparse de casa en su nave espacial. Su objetivo: llegar a la frontera mas proxima de la Federacion, cerca del Gran Abismo Septentrional, y ser la primera en viajar a estrellas sin explorar. En Lo mejor que podemos hacer acompañaremos a Coati en su aventura por el espacio, donde conseguira ser la primera en contactar con una nueva raza alienigena.Esta edicion incluye un prologo y varios analisis de los relatos para situar las obras en el contexto de la emocionante y controvertida vida de Alice B. Sheldon, tambien conocida como James Tiptree, Jr..

Sixteen humans have come together on Damien, a distant world where once, dreams were stolen and atrocities took place. They have gathered to view the last rising of a manmade nova, the testament to a war none can forget.Soon, time will warp and masks will fall. Soon, violence will erupt anew - along with treachery, horror, murder, release and love.Soon, some will find justice . . . and others, judgement. Soon.Now, sixteen humans have gathered - to await the light of the Murdered Star.

A secret US navy research project is founded to investigate the existence of paranormal powers, bringing together a variety of men and women who have shown indications of telepathic ability. As a result of the experiment they make mental contact with the Tyrenni, strange alien beings resembling winged squids who dwell in the upper atmosphere of their tempestuous world.The aliens world, Tyree, is being threatened by a huge being, the Destroyer, which is moving inexorably towards them, obliterating whole solar systems in its path. When the Tyrenni realise that it threatens to exterminate life on Tyree, they are forced into the decision - contrary to all their moral beliefs - to take over the bodies of their human contacts in order to preserve their race.

A marvelous medley of Tiptrees best, including:"YOUR HAPLOID HEART" - When Ian Suitlov and Pax Patton landed on Esthaa to check for humans, the job wasnt as easy as it appeared. Though the natives seemed human enough, only cross breeding would be conclusive proof. But how were they to prove anything, when sex was punishable by death? "THE PSYCHOLOGIST WHO WOULDNT DO AWFUL THINGS TO RATS" - Dr Tilly Lipsitz hated his name, loved his rats... and would be out of a job if he didnt come up with a real zinger of an experiment soon. He didnt have much in mind until he took a midnight trip to his lab and learned more than he would have thought possible. "SHE WAITS FOR ALL MEN BORN" - She had eyes that could not see, but without sight she had powers that went far beyond those of all who came upon her.Contents:Your Haploid Heart (1969)And So On, and So On (1971)Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (1974)A Momentary Taste of Being (1975)Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (1976)The Psychologist Who Wouldnt Do Awful Things to Rats (1976)She Waits for All Men Born (1976)

Ten tantalizing tales of man, woman and child - and their cosmic connections...Contents:Angel Fix (1974)Beaver Tears (1976)Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light! (1976)The Screwfly Solution (1977)Time-Sharing Angel (1977)We Who Stole the Dream (1978)Slow Music (1980)A Source of Innocent Merriment (1980)Out of the Everywhere (1981)With Delicate Mad Hands (1981)

These are the heroes of the Starry Rift, a dark river of night that flows between the arms of our galaxy: a headstrong teenaged runaway who makes first contact with a strange alien race; a young officer on a deep-space salvage mission who discovers an exact double of a woman he thought hed lost; and the crew of an exploration ship who must plead for the human race to avert an interstellar war.

Warm Worlds and Otherwise contains the following stories:All the Kinds of YesThe Milk of Paradise And I Have Come upon This Place by Lost WaysThe Last Flight of Dr. Ain AmberjackThrough a Lass DarklyThe Girl Who Was Plugged In The Night-Blooming SaurianThe Women Men Dont See FaultLove Is the Plan the Plan Is DeathOn the Last Afternoon

A race of octopoid aliens visits earth to restore mans dying beliefs, with spaceships containing the very Gods themselves. In the future the rich are allowed a four week holiday - into their own futures. A soldier wounded at the front finds his memories too terrifying to live with once his government-approved drugs are withdrawn. A young girl is convinced that mother-earth is male and dedicates her life to consummating her love for him. God is dead and the Devil makes an offer for the real estate of heaven...These dark visions of the future by James Tiptree Jr. are a vivid, sometimes frightening foretelling of what may happen.

Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon - better known to the world as science fiction writer James Tiptree, Jr - produced just two novels, in a glittering but tragically short career. Gollancz is delighted to present them together in this omnibus edition:UP THE WALLS OF THE WORLDA secret US navy research project is founded to investigate the existence of paranormal powers, bringing together a variety of men and women who have shown indications of telepathic ability. As a result of the experiment they make mental contact with the Tyrenni, strange alien beings resembling winged squids who dwell in the upper atmosphere of their tempestuous world.The aliens world, Tyree, is being threatened by a huge being, the Destroyer, which is moving inexorably towards them, obliterating whole solar systems in its path. When the Tyrenni realise that it threatens to exterminate life on Tyree, they are forced into the decision - contrary to all their moral beliefs - to take over the bodies of their human contacts in order to preserve their race.BRIGHTNESS FALLS FROM THE AIRSixteen humans have come together on Damien, a distant world where once, dreams were stolen and atrocities took place. They have gathered to view the last rising of a manmade nova, the testament to a war none can forget.Soon, time will warp and masks will fall. Soon, violence will erupt anew - along with treachery, horror, murder, release and love.Soon, some will find justice . . . and others, judgement. Soon.Now, sixteen humans have gathered - to await the light of the Murdered Star.

El Color de los Ojos del Neandertal El Color de los Ojos del Neandertal es la obra póstuma de James Tiptree, jr. Publicada tras su muerte, en 1988, en el Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, co

During the late 1970s, Tiptree lived for months on the eerie windswept shore of the Yucatan, and the true protagonist of this book is neither the Tiptree narrator nor the manifestations of ancient Maya civilization, but rather the Quintana Roo itself as a living, pulsating entity that envelops the reader within a uniquely alien ambience. Following Tiptrees introduction are these unforgettable nouvelles of weird fantasy: "What Came Ashore at Lirios, ""The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever, " and "Beyond the Dead Reef.

For a decade Alice Sheldon produced an extraordinary body of work under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr, until her identity was exposed in 1977. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever presents the finest of these stories and contains the Nebula Award-winning Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death, Hugo Award-winning novella The Girl Who Was Plugged In, Houston, Houston, Do You Read? - winner of both the Hugo and Nebula - and of course the story for which she is best known: The Women Men Dont See.This is a true masterwork - an overview of one of SF true greats at the very height of her powers.

Tiptrees narratives of alien worlds and alienation make up one of science fictions most vivid and influential bodies of workThe New York TimesThis landmark collection of short stories shows the feminist pioneer James Tiptree Jr. at her most inventive and daring. Here a fake girl becomes a living advertisement, women choose alien invaders over the men of Earth, a creature discovers that love means death and a pandemic engulfs the planet.Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman - who wrote as a man - as Margaret AtwoodVox

Unquestionably one of the brightest-burning talents in the constellation of science fictionThe New York TimesWritten under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr., the pioneering and outlandish tales of Alice B. Sheldon are some of the greatest science fiction short stories of the twentieth century, telling of dystopian chases, alien sex and the loneliness of the universe.What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst Brian AldissFeminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman - who wrote as a man - as Margaret AtwoodVox