tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post297336955093667348..comments2024-03-28T19:49:24.277-07:00Comments on Strange at Ecbatan: Birthday Review: James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, by Julie PhillipsRich Hortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659613066689174738noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-24095898222794085332022-11-21T01:45:24.263-08:002022-11-21T01:45:24.263-08:00A great biography of possibly the best sci fi auth...A great biography of possibly the best sci fi author of the 1970s. I think her work really suffered when her true identity became known.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-88739484071993845682021-10-24T04:12:07.626-07:002021-10-24T04:12:07.626-07:00I remember really enjoying her biography when I re...I remember really enjoying her biography when I read it around a decade ago -- especially learning who her she exchanged letters with and what they discussed. If I remember correctly, she exchanged quite a few with Craig Strete and Barry N. Malzberg (two writers I adore of course).Joachim Boazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708479581729408508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-35924504101464209982021-08-25T05:28:15.202-07:002021-08-25T05:28:15.202-07:00Indeed, and her vision got far darker as she grew ...Indeed, and her vision got far darker as she grew older (no surprise) ... as Greg Feeley noted in his Washington Post review of the collection HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER, sometimes this increased despair "hobbled" her late stories. But it was there, overtly as in "The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" or beneath the surface as in, say, "Filomena & Greg & Rikki-Tikki & Barlow & the Alien", right from the beginning.Rich Hortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07659613066689174738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-15506350088152866182021-08-24T18:54:56.373-07:002021-08-24T18:54:56.373-07:00Sheldon/Tiptree is my candidate for the greatest s...Sheldon/Tiptree is my candidate for the greatest sf writer of last sixty years...or at least she's tied with Philip K. Dick for that distinction. Phillips' biography is a fine one; the only problem that I had with it was that it seemed to me to end with a forced-upbeat summation of the life and achievement, one that (understandably!) sought to evade the real meaning of Sheldon's vision, which was unremittingly dark and desolate. Thomas Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01587426021276029142noreply@blogger.com