The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1: Sex, the Future, & Chocolate Chip Cookies

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This debut anthology features short fiction, novel excerpts, and essays that have won the James Tiptree Jr Award. Created in 1991 to honour the innovative fiction of Alice Bradley Sheldon (who wrote under the pen name James Tiptree), the Tiptree Award is presented to speculative fiction that explores and expands gender roles - and in the process touches on the most fundamental of human desires: the need for sex, for love, and for acceptance. This collection includes thought-provoking essays by Suzy McKee Charnas, Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K Le Guin, Pat Murphy, and Joanna Russ.

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"...immense, surprising and utterly delightful." -- SciFi.com. "...involving, gender-breaking stories..." -- Midwest Book Review. "A superior array of creative and thoughtful writing for both genders." -- Booklist. "The stories explore all varieties of gender in thoughtful and provocative ways." -- SF Site.

Author Bio

Karen Joy Fowler won the World Fantasy Award in 1999. She lives in Davis, California. Pat Murphy is the winner of two Nebula Awards. She lives in San Francisco, California.