Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home

Paperback Published on: 06/08/2020
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Synopsis

'Unquestionably one of the brightest-burning talents in the constellation of science fiction' The New York Times

Written under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr., the pioneering and outlandish tales of Alice B. Sheldon are some of the greatest science fiction short stories of the twentieth century, telling of dystopian chases, alien sex and the loneliness of the universe.

'What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst' Brian Aldiss

'Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman - who wrote as a man - as Margaret Atwood' Vox

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780241469231
  • Number of pages: 368
  • Dimensions: 182 x 110 x 21 mm
  • Weight: 213g
  • Languages: English

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Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home
Plain weirdness
"Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home" is a collection of sci-fi stories written by James Tiptree Jr. - who was actually a woman called Alice Sheldon (in cas... READ MORE
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Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home
Early short stories from one of the best scifi writers of the seventies
James Tiptree Junior - real name Alice Sheldon, had such an extraordinary life, working for Army Intelligence and the CIA; careers in both painting and wri... READ MORE
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