At the heart of this stimulating and provocative study is a science fiction story by James Tiptree Jr (Alice Sheldon-Bradley, 1916-1987) about a brother and a sister (and 58 other human beings) who encounter an alien while on a starship travelling to discover a habitable planet. The book includes an outline of Tiptree's work and of her remarkable life as the only child of jungle explorers, as a painter, an American agent during and after World War II, an experimental psychologist, and a female science fiction writer in male disguise.
- ISBN10 0853238146
- ISBN13 9780853238140
- Publish Date 1 February 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 June 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Liverpool University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 247
- Language English