Good condition with some reading creases on the spine. I read much of this while in the hospital for a bunch of tests. Good timing, because many of these wonderfully-written stories might just make you want to end it all. Lots of bummer hits here, which isn't unusual for Tiptree, but perhaps a higher percentage of "oh my god now I want to die" stories in this collection compared to her -- you do know "Tiptree" was a pseudonym for Alice Sheldon, don't you? -- other collections. -- Dan
1 * Second Going * (1987) * novelette
48 * Our Resident Djinn * (1986) * short story
69 * Morality Meat * (1... View More...
Stated first edition, December 1981. Good condition with tiny chips around the edges of the covers and very think cover creases, one on each side, parallel to the spine.
1 * Angel Fix * (1974) * novelette
28 * Beaver Tears * (1976) * short story
34 * Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light! * (1976) * short story
53 * The Screwfly Solution * (1977) * novelette
76 * Time-Sharing Angel * (1977) * short story
89 * We Who Stole the Dream * (1978) * novelette
116 * Slow Music * (1980) * novella
165 * A Source of Innocent Merriment * (1980) * short story
174 * Out of the Everyw... View More...
A few cover creases/wrinkles but otherwise nice. Some absolute killer stories in this one. -- Dan
vii * Introduction (Star Songs of an Old Primate) * essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
1 * Your Haploid Heart * (1969) * novelette
39 * And So On, and So On * (1971) * short story
44 * Her Smoke Rose Up Forever * (1974) * short story
65 * A Momentary Taste of Being * (1975) * novella
164 * Houston, Houston, Do You Read? * (1976) * novella
227 * The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats * (1976) * novelette
255 * She Waits for All Men Born * (1976) * short story... View More...
Second Ace printing, April 1978. Good condition with a spot of missing ink on the cover where a label was peeled, and with previous owner inscription on first page.
vii * Introduction (Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home) * (1973) * essay by Harry Harrison
1 * And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side * (1972) * short story
14 * The Snows Are Melted, the Snows Are Gone * (1969) * short story
32 * The Peacefulness of Vivyan * (1971) * short story
54 * Mamma Come Home * (1973) * novelette (variant of The Mother Ship 1968)
86 * Help * (1973) * novelette (variant of Pupa Knows Bes... View More...
Stated first printing, February 1975. Small part of front cover corner is missing, and there's clear tape across the bottom and 2" up the side of the front cover (outside and inside). This is the book with Robert Silverberg's Introduction where he states: "It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree's writing." Well, you can't win 'em all, even if you're as smart as Silverberg. Intro aside, you will find here as strong and as fine a single-author story collection as can be found anywhere, inside or ... View More...
