2007 Tiptree Award

April 17, 2008 – 12:03 am

Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army (published in the US as Daughters of the North) won the Tiptree Award for the best work of science fiction or fantasy dealing with gender published during 2007.
Also of interest to readers of this blog, Charlie Stross’ Glasshouse was on the short list.
More details in the press release. Waiting for [...]

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Wear Your Tiptree Shirt, You Might Learn Something

March 22, 2008 – 2:04 pm

At the local coffee place, the barista asked about the Tiptree Award t-shirt I was wearing. The shirts, designed by Freddie Baer, are beautiful and always attract compliments.
I told her about Tiptree being the pen name of Alice Sheldon, who wrote science fiction in the 1960s through the early 1980’s.
She said her grandfather also wrote [...]

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