James, Jr. Tiptree

The New Yorker published a heavily edited article by Alice Bradley (the author's last appearance in print before the debut of James Tiptree, Jr ), entitled The Lucky Ones.

Writing as JTJ , Alice Sheldon sold her first two science fiction stories: Birth of a Salesman (published in Analog, March 1968) and Fault (Fantastic, August 1968).

JTJ published her most famously feminist story, written early the previous year: The Women Men Don't See, in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

The first story to appear under Sheldon/Tiptree's new pseudonym, Raccoona Sheldon , was Angel Fix in the magazine If.

JTJ , who always argued that his talent was for short stories, at last succeeded in publishing a novel, Up the Walls of the World.

JTJ published a novel which she titled from a line by Thomas Nashe (which Mary Butts had borrowed for a title before this): Brightness Falls from the Air.

During her first marriage, in a state of painful inner conflict about her gender identity and role, Alice Davey drafted an unfinished essay, highly emotional in content but drily formal in tone, about these issues...

In 1973, as the hunt to uncover the identity of James Tiptree, Jr was heating up, Alice Sheldon began planning another work on psychology: The Human Male. How odd it would be, she argued,...

Galaxy carried JTJ 's story The Last Flight of Dr. Ain, which critics have called one of the author's best.

As she worked on The Human Male she also planned an essay (originally a journalism column) to be written as by James Tiptree, Jr : Tiptree's Dead Birds, in which Alice's passions for women...

JTJ again turned to a Romantic poet to title a story about xenophilia, the attraction of the Other or of aliens: And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side.

In 1974-5 JTJ participated (until he was politely asked to leave) as one of two participants in a symposium arranged by Jeffrey D. Smith to discuss therelationship of women with science fiction. Smith was to...

Neat Sheets: The Poetry of James Tiptree, Jr ., published in November 1996, is paradoxically titled, since all but two items in it are from a folder put together in the 1940s and 50s...

JTJ was a prolific letter-writer, even when her writing for publication was not going well. She described her life and doings to her parents, in detail though with far from full disclosure; she took up...

JTJ published with Ace Books her first collection: fifteen stories, titled Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home.