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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection, 20) - James Tiptree Jr.
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection, 20)
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Posthumously collected and first published in 1990 by Arkham House, this collection was issued in trade paperback by Tachyon Publications in Nov. 2004. According to Locus "Some stories have been corrected/revised from Tiptree's own notes." This most recent hardcover, published in July 2005, uses... show more
Posthumously collected and first published in 1990 by Arkham House, this collection was issued in trade paperback by Tachyon Publications in Nov. 2004. According to Locus "Some stories have been corrected/revised from Tiptree's own notes." This most recent hardcover, published in July 2005, uses the revised Tachyon text. 2nd place, 1992 Locus Poll Award, Best Collection. Contents: Introduction, by Michael Swanwick; stories: The Last Flight of Dr. Ain (nominated, 1969 Nebula Award); The Screwfly Solution (winner, 1977 Nebula Award; nominated, 1978 Hugo Award); And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (nominated, 1972 Nebula Award, 1973 Hugo Award); The Girl Who Was Plugged In (winner, 1974 Hugo Award; nominated, 1973 Nebula Award); The Man Who Walked Home; And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways; The Women Men Don't See; Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!; Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (winner, 1976 Nebula Award, 1977 Hugo Award); With Delicate Mad Hands (5th place, 1982 Locus Poll Award); A Momentary Taste of Being (nominated, 1975 Nebula Award); We Who Stole the Dream; Her Smoke Rose Up Forever; Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death (winner, 1973 Nebula Award; nominated 1974 Hugo Award); On the Last Afternoon; She Waits for All Men Born; Slow Music (7th place, 1981 Locus Poll Award); And So On, and So On.
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ISBN: 9780739455128 (0739455125)
Publisher: Science Fiction Book Club
Edition language: English
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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
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4.0 Capellanus: "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" by James Tiptree Jr.
It's a great question isn't it (and one I don't remember C.S. Lewis posing!) but I guess the 'kind of society' would be a ruling class one, whereas I doubt whether the same freedoms and female agency would be envisaged or countenanced for the rest of society. While the female in what Lewis saw as th...
Libromancer's Apprentice
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5.0 [Book Review] Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
Somehow I made it into my 30's without ever really being aware of James Tiptree, Jr. I don't know how this occurred, especially since now I'm realizing how many authors I love have won the James Tiptree, Jr literary award. Alice Sheldon, best known in the literary world as James Tiptree, Jr, led a...
Sesana
Sesana rated it
James Tiptree (or Alice B. Sheldon, if you prefer) writes passionately, even furiously, about love and sex and gender. Not every story in this collection was to my taste, but they were almost all excellent. Since listing every story that drew me in would mean almost reprinting the table of contents,...
suzemo
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5.0 Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
A collection of short stories & novellas from Alice Sheldon aka James Tiptree Jr.There was not a story in this book I did not like. Don't get me wrong, I found some of them to be more intense, or thought provoking than others, but all of them made me think. All of them had some sort of intensity. ...
target acquired
target acquired rated it
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"Ahead lies only the irreversible long decline. For the first time we know there is nothing beyond ourselves."when do you know that the book you've just read is one of your favorite books? that an author you've been reading is one of your favorite authors? probably a variety of factors come into pla...
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