Alien Plots : Female Subjectivity and the Divine in the Light of James Tiptree's 'A Momentary Taste of Being' Paperback / softback
by Inez Van Der Spek
Part of the Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies series
Paperback / softback
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At the heart of this stimulating and provocative study is a science fiction story by James Tiptree Jr (Alice Sheldon-Bradley, 1916-1987) about a brother and a sister (and 58 other human beings) who encounter an alien while on a starship travelling to discover a habitable planet.
The book includes an outline of Tiptree's work and of her remarkable life as the only child of jungle explorers, as a painter, an American agent during and after World War II, an experimental psychologist, and a female science fiction writer in male disguise.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:247 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2000
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- ISBN:9780853238249
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:247 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780853238249
