Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

James Tiptree

Tachyon Publications, 2004 - Fiction - 508 pages

These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphysics and epistemology, and gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind. Revisions from the author's notes are included, allowing a deeper view into her world and a better understanding of her work. The Nebula Award?winning short story Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death, the Hugo Award?winning novella The Girl Who Was Plugged In, and the Hugo and Nebula Award?winning novella Houston, Houston, Do You Read? are included.

About the author

James Tiptree, Jr., was born Alice Bradley in 1915 in Chicago, Illinois. When she began writing science fiction in 1968, she used a pseudonym to maintain her privacy. Alice Bradley Sheldon became the reclusive, enigmatic genius James Tiptree, Jr. His adventures and writing—gleaned from the details of Sheldon’s life—were convincingly masculine; when Sheldon finally revealed herself, her ruse was met with both surprise and delight. In 2006, interest in Tiptree’s life and work were rekindled with the publication of Julie Phillips’s definitive biography James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Washington State Book Award, and a Hugo Award.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
• Author: James Tiptree
• Publisher: Tachyon Publications, 2004
• ISBN: 1892391201, 9781892391209
• Length: 508 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic; Fiction / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies