Scholarship and criticism on James Tiptree, Jr.

Soren Baggeson.

• "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.

Joanne Blum.

• "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.

Amanda Boulter.

• "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.

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.

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.

Adam J. Frisch

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

Nancy Gearhart 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.

David Hartwell.

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

Barbara J. Hayler

• "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).

Lillian M. Heldreth

• "'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.

Veronica Hollinger.

• "'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.

Sarah Lefanu.

• "Who is Tiptree? What is She?" Chapter 11 of Feminism and Science Fiction. Bloomington, Indiana University Press (1989): pp. 105-129.

Lowry Pei.

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

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.

Julie Luedtke Seal.

• "James Tiptree, Jr.: Fostering the Future, Not Condemning It." Extrapolation v. 31, no. 1 (Spring 1990): pp. 73-82.

Mark Siegel.

• "Double-Souled Man: Immortality and Transcendence in the Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr." in Death and the Serpent: Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Carl B. Yoke & Donald M. Hassler, Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985 (pp. 163-173).
• James Tiptree, Jr. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1985. (Starmont Reader's Guide 22.)
• "Love Was the Plan, the Plan Was ...: A True Story About James Tiptree, Jr." Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction [London, England], v. 44 (Winter 1988/1989): pp. 5-13.

Robert Silverberg.

• "Who Is Tiptree, What Is He?" Introduction to Tiptree's collection, Warm Worlds and Otherwise. New York: Ballantine, 1975.

Jeff Smith.

• "If You Can't Laugh At It, What Good Is It?" Phantasmacom 6, June 1971. Interview with James Tiptree, Jr., conducted through the mail. (First published interview?)
• "The Short, Happy Life of James Tiptree, Jr." Khatru no. 7 (Feb. 1978): pp. 163-173. [The story of how Tiptree's identity was revealed.]
• "Obituaries: Alice Sheldon." S.F. Chronicle, July 1987, pp. 16, 18.

Nancy Steffen-Fluhr.

• "The Case of the Haploid Heart: Psychological Patterns in the Science Fiction of Alice Sheldon ('James Tiptree, Jr.')." Science Fiction Studies (SFS) (Montreal, Quebec) v. 17 n. 2 (51) (July 1990), pages 188-220.

James Tiptree, Jr.

• "With Tiptree Through the Great Sex Muddle," Khatru 3 & 4, Nov. 1975. An essay written for symposium, "Women in Science Fiction," Jeff Smith, editor.
• "James Tiptree, Jr." in Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist (Portland, OR: Salem Press, 1976): pp. 1100-1102.
• "Everything But the Name Is Me." Starship / Algol, v. 16, no. 4 (1979): pp. 31-34. Also appeared as "Everything But the Signature Is Me," Khatru, Feb. 1978.
• "A Woman Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy," in Women of Vision, edited by Denise Du Pont, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988: pp. 43-58. As Alice Sheldon.

Inez Van der Spek

• Alien Plots: Female Subjectivity and the Divine in the Light of James Tiptree's A Momentary Taste of Being (University of Liverpool, 2000).

Jenny Wolmark

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

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.