The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3: Subversive Stories about Sex and Gender

karen joy fowler pat murphy debbie notkin jeffrey d. smith

Returning again to the fertile ground of sex and identity, this third entry in a successful and controversial anthology series continues to celebrate thought-provoking and provocative fiction that explores and expands gender. Through their subversive, engaging stories, Tiptree Award-winning authors offer fascinating speculations on the ever-increasing mutability of our public and private selves. James Tiptree, Jr. was the pseudonym of Alice Bradley Sheldon, whose lasting contributions to the gender-bending genre are honored with this annual award, now in its 15th year. Previous winners of the Tiptree Award include Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin, M. John Harrison, Kelly Link, Joe Haldeman, and Joanna Russ.

Content

Introduction by Jeffrey D. Smith

“Dearth” by Aimee Bender
“The Future of Femail: Octavia Butler’s Mother Lode” by Dorothy Allison
“Knapsack Poems” by Eleanor Arnason
“The Girl Who Was Plugged In” by James Tiptree, Jr.
“Dear Alice Sheldon” by L. Timmel Duchamp
“Wooden Bride” by Margo Lanagan
“The Glass Bottle Trick” by Nalo Hopkinson
“Shame” by Pam Noles
“Liking What You See: A Documentary” by Ted Chaing
“Mountains Ways” by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Little Faces” by Vonda N. McIntyre

Genres science fictionshort storiesfictionanthologiesgenderfantasylgbtscience fiction fantasyspeculative fiction

274 pages, Paperback

First published January 15,2007

This edition

Format: 274 pages, Paperback
Published: January 15, 2007 by Tachyon Publications
ISBN: 9781892391414
ASIN: 1892391414
Language: English

About the author

karen joy fowler

Karen Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels and three short story collections. Her 2004 novel, The Jane Austen Book Club, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler's previous novel, Sister Noon, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel, Sarah Canary, won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian, was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler's short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999, and her collection What I Didn't See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and was short-listed for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. Her new novel Booth published in March 2022.

She is the co-founder of the Otherwise Award and the current president of the Clarion Foundation (also known as Clarion San Diego). Fowler and her husband, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren, live in Santa Cruz, California. Fowler also supports a chimp named Caesar who lives at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone.