- English Short stories, Short stories, English, Long Now Manual for Civilization, American Science fiction
xxxvi, 312 p. ; 21 cm
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Classical in form, grave, contemporary and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- James Tiptree, Jr.
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 333
- Publisher
- Ace Books, Pan Books / Macmillan, Gregg Press
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780241469231
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Alice Bradley Sheldon (August 24, 1915 - May 1987), aka James Tiptree, Jr., was an American science fiction writer. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Herbert Bradley, a lawyer, African explorer, and naturalist, and Mary Hastings Bradley, a prolific writer. As a child, she travelled the world with her parents, including an African safari in 1921-22. Initially, she worked as a graphic artist and a painter. In 1934 she married William Davey, and they divorced in 1941. Also in 1941, she became an art critic for the Chicago Sun, but she left that position in 1942 to join the U.S. Army Air Forces photo-intelligence group. In 1945 she married her second husband, Huntington D. Sheld
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