Scholarship and criticism on James Tiptree, Jr.

Baggeson, Soren.

• "Utopian and Dystopian Pessimism: Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest and Tiptree's "We Who Stole the Dream." Science Fiction Studies v. 14 (1987): pages 34-43.

Marleen Barr;

• "Science Fiction's Invisible Female Man: Feminism, Formula, Word and World in 'When It Changed' and 'The Women Men Don't See'", in Luk de Vos, editor, Just the Other Day: Essays on the Suture of the Future. Antwerp: EXA, 1985. pages 433-437. (Series: Intrepid Reeks number 11.) Also as: "Science Fiction's Invisible Female Men: Joanna Russ's 'When It Changed' and James Tiptree's 'The Women Men Don't See.'", in Chapter 5 of Lost in Space (1993)
• "'The Females Do the Fathering!' James Tiptree's Male Matriarchs and Adult Human Gametes." Science Fiction Studies v. 13 no. 38 (March 1986) pages 42-49. Also: "'The Females Do the Fathering!' Reading, Resisting, and James Tiptree, Jr." Rev. & Reprinted in Alien to Feminity.

Blum, Joanne.

• "Return to the Myth in Fictions by Le Guin, Bryant, and Tiptree." in Transcending Gender: The Male / Female Double in Women's Fiction. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988: pp. 61-76.

Boulter, Amanda.

• "Alice James Raccoona Tiptree Sheldon Jr.: Textual Personas in the Short Fiction of Alice Sheldon." Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction [London, England]: v. 63 (Spring 1995): pp. 5-31.

Julie Phillips.

• "Mars Needs Women: The True Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr." VLS Sept. 1996: pp. 18-20.

Charles Platt.

• "Profile: James Tiptree, Jr." Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1983: pp. 26-49.
• "James Tiptree, Jr." in Dream Makers, Volume II: The Uncommon Men and Women Who Write Science Fiction: Interviews by Charles Platt. New York: Berkley Books, 1983: pp. 257-272.

Susan Wood.

• "James Tiptree, Jr." in Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day. edited by Everett Franklin Bleiler, New York: Scribner's, 1982: pp. 531-541.

Jenny Wolmark

• Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism and Postmodernism. Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1993/94. Chapter 4 on Tiptree.

Lowry Pei.

• "Poor Singletons: Definitions of Humanity in the Stories of James Tiptree, Jr." Science-Fiction Studies v. 6 (1979): pp. 271-280.

Frisch, Adam J.

• "Toward New Sexual Identities: James Tiptree, Jr." in Staicar's The Feminine Eye (Ungar: New York, 1982), pp. 48-59.

Gardner R. Dozois.

• The Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr.. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1976; New York: Algol Press, 1977; Borgo Press: 1983. Originally published as introduction to Tiptree's 10,000 Light-Years from Home, Gregg Press.

Gearhart, Nancy, and Jean Ross.

• "Sheldon, Alice Hastings Bradley (Raccoona Sheldon; James Tiptree, Jr.)." Entry in Contemporary Authors (Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1983): v. 108 : pp. 443-450.

Hartwell, David.

• "Tiptree Appreciation." Locus, July 1987, p. 63.

Hayler, Barbara J.

• "The Feminist Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr.: Women and Men as Aliens." Spectrum of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Sixth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, edited by Donald Palumbo. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1988 (pp. 127-132).

Heldreth, Lillian M.

• "'Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death': The Feminism and Fatalism of James Tiptree, Jr." Extrapolation v. 23 n. 1 (Spring 1982), p. 22-30.

Denise Du Pont.

• editor, Women of Vision: Essays By Women Writing Science Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Includes essays by Ursula K. Le Guin, Virginia Kidd, Anne McCaffrey, Patricia C. Hodgell, Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree), Suzette Haden Elgin, Lee Killough, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Eleanor Arnason, Joan D. Vinge, Pamela Sargent, and Suzy McKee Charnas.

• "'The Most Grisly Truth': Responses to the Human Condition in the Works of James Tiptree, Jr." Extrapolation v. 30, no. 2 (Summer 1989): pp. 117-132.