http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2009/02/09/up_the_walls_of_the_world/ A Life In Science Fiction Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2009/02/09/up_the_walls_of_the_world/#comment-240 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:22:45 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2009/02/09/up_the_walls_of_the_world/#comment-240 I dunno, Tricia, I think one could argue in all kinds of directions on the Tiptree his/her point. Alice Sheldon was a damned incredible lady, but Tiptree was a man — as an identity, as a pseudonym, and as what eventually became an entirely separate narrative, a life’s work of masculine construction. When Tiptree “came out” as fiction, Sheldon was sad to lose the mask, and derailed creatively for the rest of her life. I think it’s pretty considerate to her memory to refer to her as he, since Tip is who she worked her whole career to invent.

]]> http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2009/02/09/up_the_walls_of_the_world/#comment-239 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:48:05 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2009/02/09/up_the_walls_of_the_world/#comment-239 You mean Tiptree was ahead of her time.

]]> http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2009/02/09/up_the_walls_of_the_world/#comment-238 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:41:48 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/spacecanon/2009/02/09/up_the_walls_of_the_world/#comment-238 Completely agree. Tiptree was ahead of his time. Great post.

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