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Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home

James Tiptree, Jr author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:6th Aug '20

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The dazzling debut collection from one of the greatest female science fiction writers ever.

'Unquestionably one of the brightest-burning talents in the constellation of science fiction' The New York Times

Written under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr., the pioneering and outlandish tales of Alice B. Sheldon are some of the greatest science fiction short stories of the twentieth century, telling of dystopian chases, alien sex and the loneliness of the universe.

'What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst' Brian Aldiss

'Feminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman - who wrote as a man - as Margaret Atwood' Vox

ISBN: 9780241469231

Dimensions: 182mm x 110mm x 21mm

Weight: 213g

368 pages