Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home
$23.64
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2020
Summary
The dazzling debut collection from one of the greatest female science fiction writers ever. James Tiptree Jr, the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon, is widely considered to be one of the most influential American genre writers ever, and a pioneer of feminist science fiction.
10,000 Light Years from Home, her brilliant debut collection, displays all her trademark humour, intensity and originality, with dark dystopian thrills, fast-paced intergalactic satire and hardboiled tale…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241469231 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241469236 |
| Author: | James Tiptree, Jr., James Tiptree |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2020 |
| Weight: | 213g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 110mm x 182mm |
| Series: | Penguin Science Fiction |
James Tiptree, Jr.
James Tiptree Jr, the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon (1915 - 1987) is widely considered to be one of the most influential genre writers of the twentieth century, and a pioneer of feminist science-fiction. Born in Chicago, she worked in the United States Army Air Force as an intelligence officer, where she rose to the rank of Major. She began to write science-fiction under the Tiptree pseudonym in 1967. Her short stories and novellas have received numerous prizes, including multiple Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. She was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012.
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