The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1

This debut anthology features short fiction, novel excerpts, and essays that have won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Created in 1991 to honor the innovative fiction of Alice Bradley Sheldon (who wrote under the pen name James Tiptree), the Tiptree Award is presented to speculative fiction that explores and expands gender roles—and in the process touches on the most fundamental of human desires: the need for sex, for love, and for acceptance. This collection includes thought-provoking essays by Suzy McKee Charnas, Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Pat Murphy, and Joanna Russ.

Karen Joy Fowler is the author of The Jane Austen Book Club, Sarah Canary, Sister Noon, and the short story collection Black Glass, which won the World Fantasy Award in 1999. She lives in Davis, California. Pat Murphy is the author of Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell and two Nebula Award–winning titles: The Falling Woman and Rachel in Love. She lives in San Francisco, California. Debbie Notkin is an editor for Tor Books and Prima Publishing. She lives in Berkeley, California. Jeffrey D. Smith is the literary trustee of James Tiptree, Jr.'s estate. He is the editor of Women in Science Fiction and Meet Me at Infinity, a posthumous collection of Tiptree's stories and essays. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.