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James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

James Tiptree, JR. Tiptree burst onto the science fiction scene in the 1970s with hard-edged, provocative short stories. Then the cover was blown: the author was actually a 61-year-old woman named Alice Sheldon--world traveler, debutante, chicken farmer, CIA agent, and experimental psychologist. Full description

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