Letters to TiptreeFrom Twelfth Planet Press

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For nearly a decade, between 1968 and 1976, a middle-aged woman in Virginia (her own words) had much of the science fiction community in thrall. Her short stories were awarded, lauded and extremely well-reviewed. They were also regarded as “ineluctably masculine”, because Alice Sheldon was writing as James Tiptree Jr. In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Alice Sheldon’s birth, and in recognition of the enormous influence of both Tiptree and Sheldon on the field, Twelfth Planet Press has published a selection of thoughtful letters written by science fiction and fantasy’s writers, editors, critics and fans to celebrate her, to recognise her work, and maybe in some cases to finish conversations set aside nearly thirty years ago. Letters From: Kathryn Allan Marleen S. Barr Stephanie Burgis Joyce Chng Aliette de Bodard L. Timmel Duchamp A.J. Fitzwater Lisa Goldstein Theodora Goss Nicola Griffith Valentin D Ivanov Gwyneth Jones Rose Lemberg Sylvia Kelso Alex Dally MacFarlane Brit Mandelo Sandra McDonald Seanan McGuire Karen Miller Judith Moffett Cheryl Morgan Pat Murphy Sarah Pinsker Cat Rambo Tansy Rayner Roberts Justina Robson Nisi Shawl Nike Sulway Lucy Sussex Rachel Swirsky Bogi Takács Lynne M. Thomas Elisabeth Vonarburg Jo Walton Tess Williams And bonus reprint material including: - archived letters from Ursula K. Le Guin, Joanna Russ and James Tiptree Jr./Alice Sheldon - excerpts from THE SECRET FEMINIST CABAL: A CULTURAL HISTORY of SCIENCE FICTION FEMINISMS by Helen Merrick - excerpt from BATTLE OF THE SEXES IN SCIENCE FICTION by Justine Larbalestier - introduction to HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER by Michael Swanwick

Letters to TiptreeFrom Twelfth Planet Press

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• Published on: 2015-09-03
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A fascinating homage to one of sci-fic's most talented figures. By E Fitzgerald When Twelfth Planet Press sent me a review copy of Letters to Tiptree, I admit I was a little apprehensive. I've not read any of the stories Alice Sheldon published under the names of James Tiptree, Jr. and Raccoona Sheldon. I'm not even especially interested in science fiction spanning the late 60s and 70s--though I have felt some pressure to become familiar with this era of canon, much as Renay has commented. So I was a little bit surprised by just how much I enjoyed this book.Letters to Tiptree is divided into several sections. The first and largest consists of letters written for this collection by authors, academics and fans to Alice, Tiptree and/or Raccoona. There is an impressive diversity of voices here, containing writers of varying backgrounds, nationalities, races, generations, gender identities, sexualities and classes. This diversity serves to showcase the wide impact Tiptree's work had--and continues to have--upon the speculative fiction community. But letter writing--even when the letters remain unanswered--remains a two-way street. I found myself equally as fascinated by what the letters revealed about their writers as what they said about Tiptree. Some clearly had an eye towards their audience, while others were more focussed on the person they were writing to. Some letters were restless and unhappy, while others were breathtaking in their sincere gratitude. Even the anger present in some merely added to the sense that this collection was a beautiful love letter.Gender and identity are naturally one of the major preoccupations of these letters. It was interesting to see the different conclusions authors came to while pondering what ground--if any--feminism has gained since Tiptree's death thirty years ago. However, this wasn't the sole focus of these letters. They also dwelt on some of the other overarching themes of Tiptree's work, such as class, colonialism, technology and time.The second section is formed of a selection of letters exchanged between Alice Sheldon and her contemporaries--specifically Ursula LeGuin and Joanna Russ. Sheldon had been writing to these two women under the guise of Tiptree and had formed close friendships with them. When the death of Sheldon's mother began to unravel the identity of James Tiptree, Jr., she was quick to write to them and confess the truth. The letters included in this book centre around these confessions. After hearing so much about the influence of Tiptree on the letter writers of the first section, it was a delight to hear her speak in her own voice. At the same time, it was a little bit heartbreaking because her fear and unhappiness are very evident.This is followed by a section with a more academic focus, containing a few anthology introductions and excerpts from more scholarly works. I'd been able to grasp much of the context of Tiptree's work from the letters in the first section, though this did a good job of filling in some of the gaps and expanding the territory a little bit. I found Wendy Guy Pearson's 1999 paper on Tiptree as a transgender writer to be particularly interesting.The collection was rounded out with letters from the two editors addressed to Tiptree and reflecting on their experiences of putting the collection together.If the aim of the book was to interest new readers in the life and work of Tiptree, it succeeded in my case.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A celebration of the life of a fascinating writer By Heather Rose Jones Letters to Tiptree (ed. Alisa Krasnostein and Alexandra Pierce), produced on the occasion of Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree Jr.’s 100th birthday, is not exactly a festschrift, not quite a memorial volume, certainly not a biography. Let’s just call it a celebration. Although it has no direct connection to Julie Phillips’ in-depth biography James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, It probably would not exist—certainly not in this specific form—without the existence of that work, which details the startlingly implausible life of the author.This book centers around a collection of—quite literally—love letters from current SFF writers addressed to Sheldon/Tiptree in various sets of her identities, and explaining what her existence, her work, her reception, and her struggles meant to them personally. The next, shorter section includes several sets of correspondence between Sheldon/Tiptree and some of her closest correspondents at the time the identity behind her nom de plume became public. That is, these are the letters where Sheldon identifies herself as Tiptree to Ursula K. LeGuin and Joanna Russ, sharing her fears that the revelation will destroy their friendships, and then the return letters from those writers, embracing and supporting her, and their continued correspondence in the aftermath. And finally there is a collection of introductions from collections and editions of Sheldon/Tiptree’s work after that time, discussing the literary and gender politics that Sheldon/Tiptree’s existence and reception revealed, at a time when data from that sort of controlled social experiment could have the greatest impact on the field. Also included are more recent academic papers looking back on her legacy.This is not quite a work of literary scholarship, neither is it a work of biography. It is, as I say, pure love letter. As such, it supplies an essential completion to an understanding of Sheldon/Tiptree’s place in the field and her impact on readers and writers that goes beyond the sheer excellence and brilliance of her writing.I didn’t have the experience of the dual-vision of Sheldon/Tiptree that is recorded in the latter parts of the collection (and some letters in the first part). The exposure of her identity occurred right around the time I was starting to pay attention to authors (as opposed to simply reading every book in the SFF section of the library). But I remember vividly reading some of her work in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s when all this was going down and feeling that sense of frustrated kinship of what it means to have to re-invent and mask yourself to have your work judged on anything resembling an even playing field. It's also daunting to consider how little we've moved beyond the day when an author who is--or is believed to be--male will have their work treated as cutting-edge and groundbreaking, when the same work written by an author who is (or is believed to be) female can have it dismissed as "women's writing" and self-indulgent. And yet, to set Sheldon/Tiptree aside as simply unequivocal and incisive proof of that phenomenon would be to buy into a notion that her body of work exists as commentary, as meta-text, rather than as something that should be read, evaluated, and honored for its objective brilliance.So I feel a bit weird that this "review" is more meta-text commentary than a discussion of content. Let's just say that this is a valuable and fascinating celebration of the work and lessons of a great writer.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Honouring the writing and life of an amazing person By KLL I don't want to freak anyone out with extra reading, bu this book is best read in conjunction with Tiptree/Sheldon's stories (e.g. the collection 'Her Smoke Rose Up Forever), and the biography (The Double Life of Alice B Sheldon) by Julie Phillips. This sounds like a lot of work, but IT IS SO WORTH IT. Tiptree/Sheldon led an amazing and tragic life - one that I had been intending to read about for many years, but only finally did so after the publication of 'Letters to Tiptree', which commemorates the year of what would have been Sheldon/Tiptree's 100th birthday. There are so many interesting and amazing points of view and takes on Sheldon/Tiptree's life, but it is really enhanced with better knowledge of their life and stories. Thanks to Pierce and Krasnostein for the commemoration to one of SFF's most important writers.

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