Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr.

No, Alice Sheldon was an intelligence officer for the Air Force and later with the CIA and that is the reason she created a pen name, and the idea of making a man’s personality that could trade letters just seemed away to hide her identity even better. Campbell’s personal glass ceiling, but since we have agreed to his need to retroactively fuck off let's remember women were publishing in Sci-fi, and Tiptree was a pen name for other reasons. Sure Judith Merrill may have needed to make party part bets to break John W. When Lisa Yasek collected stories for the Library of America’s The Future is Female there was no shortage of stories and authors to choose from.

Judith Merrill, Joanna Russ, and Ursala K Leguin were just some of the giants in the field at the time. While there is evidence of DC AKA Dorothy Fontana had done this to sell western scripts in TV at the time, the science fiction community had several active female voices at the time. Let’s get one thing clear, Alice Sheldon didn’t choose a man’s name to get published in the 60s and 70s science fiction community. She led an interesting life that is often misunderstood. The truth about this writing life is strange for sure. Locus Award Nominee for Best Collection (1991)įor any other author, this life story would be the case of truth being stronger than fiction, but in the case of Uncle Tip, AKA James Tiptree Jr., AKA Alice Sheldon the fiction is really fucking strange. Published November 2004 by Tachyon Publications (first published 1990)

Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr.