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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
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Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

BookPaperback
Ranking1197961inBelletristik
CHF19.90

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A stunning collection from one of science fiction's great short story writers.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-4732-0324-2
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
FormatB-format paperback
PublisherOrionGollancz
Publishing date10/07/2014
Pages544 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 131 mm, Height 198 mm, Thickness 34 mm
Weight378 g
Article no.16910785
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.16084769
Product groupBelletristik
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Author

James Tiptree Jr (1915-1987)
Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon wrote most of her fiction as James Tiptree, Jr - she was making a point about sexist assumptions and also keeping her US government employers from knowing her business. Most of her books are collections of short stories, of which Her Smoke Rose Up Forever is considered to be her best selection. Sheldon's best stories combine radical feminism with a tough-minded tragic view of life; even virtuous characters are exposed as unwitting beneficiaries of disgusting socio-economic systems. Even good men are complicit in women's oppression, as in her most famous stories 'The Women Men Don't See' and 'Houston, Houston, Do you Read?' or in ecocide. Much of her work, even at its most tragic, has an attractively ironic tone which sometimes becomes straightforwardly comedy - it is important to stress that Tiptree's deep seriousness never becomes sombre or pompous. Her two novels Up the Walls of the World and Brightness Falls from the Air are both remarkable transfigurations of stock space opera material - the former deals with a vast destroying being, sympathetic aliens at risk of destruction by it and human telepaths trying to make contact across the gulf of stars. She died tragically in 1987.