James Tiptree
Alice Bradley Sheldon, better known as James Tiptree Jr., was an American science fiction and fantasy author. It was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree Jr. was a pen name of a woman, which she used from 1967 until her death.
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"You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?"
"New York Times review of JAMES TIPTREE, JR The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon By Julie Phillips"
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1915
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Birth1987
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- father:
- Herbert Edwin Bradley
- mother:
- Mary Hastings Bradley
- spouse:
- Huntington D. Sheldon
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