- Fiction in English, Military research, Human-alien encounters, Extrasensory perception
Human telepaths receive calls for help from an endangered world. However, the interstellar being threatening them, may be trying to help.
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Grave, epic, classical in form and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- James Tiptree, Jr.
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 319
- Publisher
- Septime Verlag e.U., DENOEL, Gallimard
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- French, German, English
- ISBN
- 9783902711465
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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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