Warm Worlds and Otherwise [Mass Market Paperback]

James Tiptree Jr. (Author), Michael Herring (Illustrator), Robert Silverberg (Introduction)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 12, 1979

Ballantine mass paperback, 1st edition, 2nd printing Feb. 1979, ISBN 0345280229, 222 pages, cover art by Michael Herring. 8vo (7" x 4.25") 1976 Locus Poll Award, Best Single Author Collection (Place: 5). Introduction by Robert Silverberg, revised from first edition (the author, previously thought male, was revealed to be a woman after the first edition was published). Stories: All the Kinds of Yes; The Milk of Paradise [1973 Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Place: 18)]; And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways; The Last Flight of Dr. Ain [nominated, 1969 Nebula Award]; Amberjack; Through a Lass Darkly; The Girl Who Was Plugged In [winner, 1974 Hugo Award. Nominated, 1973 Nebula Award. 1974 Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Place: 4)]; The Night-Blooming Saurian; The Women Men Don't See [1974 Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Place: 18)]; Fault; Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death [1973 Nebula Award. Nominated, 1974 Hugo Award. 1974 Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (Place: 3)]; and On the Last Afternoon.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Del Rey; 1st edition (January 12, 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345280229
• ISBN-13: 978-0345280220
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,569,152 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars She was a gifted writer, September 12, 2002

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Glen Engel Cox (Columbus, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Warm Worlds and Otherwise (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the Tiptree collection which contains the infamous introduction by Robert Silverberg in which he claims that Tiptree was not just a man, but indubitably a man, based on the text herein. Of course, Tiptree wasn't a man, which Silverberg discovered in a personal note from Alice Sheldon to himself, recounted in an afterword to his introduction in this later edition of the collection. Silverberg, it should be noted, is extremely gracious in noting his mistake, saying that Sheldon fooled him--and most everyone--beautifully and "called into question the entire notion of what is 'masculine' and 'feminine' in fiction." While the point is well taken, as Silverberg thanks Sheldon for forcing him to examine his preconceptions once again, I note that Tiptree had good practice at imitating a man long before she began to publish as one, as many women of her generation had to. I would like to think that this is one of the things that has changed; I fear that it isn't.

Although Tiptree wrote masterfully about the differences and problems of the sexes (here in probably her best-known story, "The Women Men Don't See"), to me she is at her best when commenting on the general human race (here in stories like "The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" and "On the Last Afternoon"). Not only had Tiptree discovered and was able to relate the differences between the sexes, but she had also found the similarities--that is, what made us "human." And that, to me, is the purpose of all fiction.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best SF short stories I ever read - clever & moving, April 12, 1999

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This review is from: Warm Worlds and Otherwise (Mass Market Paperback)

I read this in college in the 70's. I passed the tattered copy around to my friends until it literally fell apart. On a magical backpack trip above Yosemite, a friend & I read it outloud to each other by campfire light. I've been looking for it (& that feeling) for years!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still shocking after all these years, November 13, 2006

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V. Germann (Central Missouri, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Warm Worlds and Otherwise (Mass Market Paperback)

I recently read the new biography of Alice Sheldon, whose nom de plume was James Tiptree, Jr., and so I went back and re-read this book. Harlan Ellison once said something about "the healing art of razor blade fiction" and that's what Warm Worlds & Otherwise is -- razor blade fiction. No, my friends, it's just a fact that The Universe is not a friendly place and the long run plans of DNA may not include "mankind." James Tiptree, Jr., knew this, well, and got it across, written in blood. Don't miss this book.

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