Shop Categories
- Polish
- Bear in the Big Blue House
- Baskets
- Martin, Thomas K.
- Celtic & British Isles
- Art
- Purchasing & Buying
- General AAS
- Statistics
- General AAS
- Fertility
- Snowboarding
- Central America
- Series
- Travel
- Levels of Government
- Hispanic & Latino
- Fiction
- Physical Disabilities
- Large Print
- Aromatic Compounds
- Nottingham, Theodore
- Barrett, Victoria
- Ackroyd, Peter
- Embroidery
- Watches
- Home and Garden
- UK Electronics
- UK Books
- Health and Personal Care
- UK Sporting Goods
- Clothing, Shoes and Accessories
- Electronics, Gadgets and Computers
- CDs and Music Downloads
- UK Software and Video Games
- UK Toys and Games
- UK Home and Garden
- UK Video Games
- UK Baby Clothes and Accessories
- Books On
- German Electronics
Books : Science Fiction & Fantasy : Authors, A-Z : ( T ) : Tiptree, James Jr.
-
These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphysics and epistemology, and gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind. Revisions from the author's notes are included, allowing a deeper view into her world and a better understanding of her work. The Nebula Award–winning short story Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death, the Hugo Award–winning novella The Girl Who Was Plugged In, and the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novella Houston, Houston, Do You Read? are included.
-
They have gathered now on Damien and are about to witness the last rising of a manmade nova. They are 16 humans in a distant world about to be enveloped by an eruption of violence--horror and murder oddly complemented by a bizarre unforgiving love. But justice is not all that's about to be found. Judgment is coming and the 16 unsuspecting ones are on the threshold of the murdered star.
-
Fifteen prize-winning science fiction stories.
-
-
-
.
-
-
Revised introduction by Robert Silverberg. Stories: All the Kinds of Yes; The Milk of Paradise; And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways; The Last Flight of Dr. Ain [Nebula Award nominee]; Amberjack; Through a Lass Darkly; The Girl Who Was Plugged In [1974 Hugo Award winner; nominee, Nebula Award]; The Night-Blooming Saurian; The Women Men Don't See; Fault; Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death [1973 Nebula Award winner, Hugo Award nominee]; On the Last Afternoon.
-
Posthumously collected and first published in 1990 by Arkham House, this collection was issued in trade paperback by Tachyon Publications in Nov. 2004. According to Locus "Some stories have been corrected/revised from Tiptree's own notes." This most recent hardcover, published in July 2005, uses the revised Tachyon text. 2nd place, 1992 Locus Poll Award, Best Collection. Contents: Introduction, by Michael Swanwick; stories: The Last Flight of Dr. Ain (nominated, 1969 Nebula Award); The Screwfly Solution (winner, 1977 Nebula Award; nominated, 1978 Hugo Award); And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side (nominated, 1972 Nebula Award, 1973 Hugo Award); The Girl Who Was Plugged In (winner, 1974 Hugo Award; nominated, 1973 Nebula Award); The Man Who Walked Home; And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways; The Women Men Don't See; Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!; Houston, Houston, Do You Read? (winner, 1976 Nebula Award, 1977 Hugo Award); With Delicate Mad Hands (5th place, 1982 Locus Poll Award); A Momentary Taste of Being (nominated, 1975 Nebula Award); We Who Stole the Dream; Her Smoke Rose Up Forever; Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death (winner, 1973 Nebula Award; nominated 1974 Hugo Award); On the Last Afternoon; She Waits for All Men Born; Slow Music (7th place, 1981 Locus Poll Award); And So On, and So On.
-
1981 Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology (Place: 15). Compiled by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg, this is a mammoth anthology of great science fiction short novels, including: Beyond Bedlam, by Wyman Guin; Equinoctial [1978 Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Place: 12)], by John Varley; By His Bootstraps, by Robert A. Heinlein; The Golden Helix, by Theodore Sturgeon; Born With the Dead [winner, 1974 Nebula Award, 1975 Locus Poll Award. Nominated, 1975 Hugo Award], by Robert Silverberg; Second Game [nominated, 1958 Hugo Award], by Katherine MacLean and Charles V. De Vet; The Dead Past, by Isaac Asimov; The Road to the Sea, by Arthur C. Clarke; The Star Pit [nominated, 1968 Hugo Award], by Samuel R. Delany; Giant Killer [nominated, 1996 Retro Hugo Award], by A. Bertram Chandler; A Case of Conscience [incorporated into the novel of the same name as Book One], by James Blish; Dio, by Damon Knight; Houston, Houston, Do You Read? [winner, 1976 Nebula Award, 1977 Hugo Award. 1977 Locus Poll Award, Best Novella (Place: 3)], by James Tiptree, Jr.; On the Storm Planet [nominated, 1965 Nebula Award], by Cordwainer Smith; The Miracle-Workers [nominated, 1959 Hugo Award], by Jack Vance.
-
-
-
-
-
In a dark near-future, global warming and a ruined ecology is causing the continents to sink into the oceans just as the towers of Atlantis re-emerge above the sea. Hugo Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Winner, Nebula Award Nominee
-
These are the heroes of the Starry Rift, a dark river of night that flows between the arms of our galaxy: A headstrong teenaged runaway who makes first contact with a strange alien race. A young officer on a deep-space salvage mission who discovers an exact double of a woman he thought he'd lost. The crew of an exploration ship who must plead for the human race to avert an interstellar war.
-
Tor mass paperback: two short novels in one volume, each upside-down and backward to the other, so there are two covers. ISBN: 0812545540, 79 + 57 pages, cover art by Maren and Peter Gudynas. 12mo (6.75" x 4.25") Also includes, between the two listed works, the first three chapters of Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner (unpaginated). Omnibus edition of Screwtop, by Vonda N. McIntyre; and The Girl Who Was Plugged In, by James Tiptree, Jr. (Winner, 1974 Hugo Award. Nominated, 1974 Nebula Award; 4th place, 1974 Locus Poll Award).
-
-
First paperback edition. Chilling tales full of alien beauty or terror. "Into My Own" is a story which takes please inside the head of an aging playwright in a hospital bed, trying to resign himself to giving up his soul to an organic computer. "Disturb Not My Slumbering Fair" deals with the problems which a lady ghoul faces when she attempts to gain access to the city morgue. And in "Fellini Beggar" Ms. Yarbo highlights one of the unifying themes of this volume, the magic mystery of beauty and love surviving, however doomed, against all odds. Also includes "Everything That Begins with an 'M'", "Frog Pond", "Un Bel Di", "Lammas Night", "The Meaning of the Word", "The Generalissimo's Butterfly", "Allies", "Dead in Irons", "Swan Song" and "An Indulgence".
-