The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, the Future, & Chocolate Chip Cookies

karen joy fowler pat murphy debbie notkin jeffrey d. smith suzy mckee charnas

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.

Contents

Introduction by Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler

"Boys" by Carol Emshwiller
"Birth Days" by Geoff Ryman
"The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Anderson
"Everything but the Signature Is Me" by James Tiptree, Jr.
"'Tiptree' and History" by Joanna Russ
"The Lady of the Ice Garden" by Kara Dalkey
"What I Didn't See" by Karen Joy Fowler
"Travels With the Snow Queen" by Kelly Link
Excerpts from Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff
"The Catgirl Manifesto: An Introduction" by Richard Calder
"Looking Through Lace" by Ruth Nestvold
"The Ghost Girls of Rumney Mill" by Sandra McDonald
"Judging the Tiptree" by Suzy McKee Charnas
"Genre: A Word Only the French Could Love" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Genres science fictionshort storiesfictionanthologiesfantasygendershort story collectionlgbtspeculative fictionsexuality

302 pages, Paperback

First published November 1,2004

This edition

Format: 302 pages, Paperback
Published: November 1, 2004 by Tachyon Publications
ISBN: 9781892391193
ASIN: 1892391198
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.