The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2

karen joy fowler pat murphy debbie notkin jeffrey d. smith johanna sinisalo

Following the successful debut of the series, this second serving of innovative storytelling continues to celebrate thought-provoking and provocative speculative fiction. Touching on the most fundamental of human desires—sex, love, and the need for acceptance—Tiptree Award-winning authors continually challenge and redefine social identities, simultaneously exploring and expanding gender. James Tiptree, Jr. was the pseudonym of Alice Bradley Sheldon, whose lasting contributions to the genre are honored every year with the award. This collection gathers short fiction and essays that were chosen by the Tiptree Award judges in 2004, as well as additional selections from previous years. Contributors include Raphael Carter, L. Timmel Duchamp, Carol Emshwiller, Eileen Gunn, Joe Haldeman, Nalo Hopkinson, Gwyneth Jones, Jaye Lawrence, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jonathan Lethem, Debbie Notkin, Julie Phillips, Johanna Sinsalo, and Leslie What.

Contents

“All of Us Can Almost” by Carol Emshwiller
“Nirvana High” by Eileen Gunn and Leslie What
“The Brains of Femaile Heyana Twins” by Gwyneth Jones
“Letter to Rudolf Arnheim” by James Tiptree, Jr.
“Kissing Frogs” by Jaye Lawrence
Excerpt from Camouflage by Joe Halderman
Excerpt from Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo
“Five Fucks” by Jonathan Lethem
“Talking Too Much: About James Tiptree, Jr.” by Julie Phillips
“The Gift” by L. Timmel Duchamp
“Looking for Clues” Nalo Hopkinson
“Sea of Trolls” by Nancy Farmer
“Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation” by Rafael Carter
“Another Story, or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea” by Ursula K. Le Guin

Genres science fictionfictionanthologiesshort storiesgenderfantasyscience fiction fantasylgbtsexualityqueer

252 pages, Paperback

First published October 1,2005

This edition

Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Published: October 1, 2005 by Tachyon Publications
ISBN: 9781892391315
ASIN: 1892391317
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.