Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home

by James Tiptree Jr.

Paperback, 1973

Status

Available

Call number

823.9

Genres

Science Fiction

All Topics

Fiction

Collection

Your library

Publication

Ace Books (1973), Edition: 2nd thus, Mass Market Paperback, 319 pages

Description

James Tiptree Jr, the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon, is widely considered to be one of the most influential American genre writers ever, and a pioneer of feminist science fiction. 10,000 Light Years from Home, her brilliant debut collection, displays all her trademark humour, intensity and originality, with dark dystopian thrills, fast-paced intergalactic satire and hardboiled tales of alien invasion. A startling and unforgettable depiction of humanity's experience among the stars, the collection includes some of Tiptree's most powerful stories- 'And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side', 'The Man Who Walked Home' and 'Beam Us Home'.

User reviews

LibraryThing member BruceCoulson

Like most collections a lot of very good stories, and a few mediocre ones. One story alone justifies buying the entire book 'And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side'; one of the very rare completely original looks at alien-human contact.

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LibraryThing member ikeman100

This was my first book by Tiptree. I have mixed feelings about this book. She is writes in many styles. She has a habit of titling her stories with an idea that gives you no clue about the story itself. Lots of interesting short stories that are vastly different from each other.

This collection has

15 short stories:

And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side - Amazing
The Snows Are Melted, the Snows Are Gone - Vary Good
The Peacefulness of Vivyan - Pointless
Mamma Come Home - Good Story
Help - Good Story
Painwise - Pointless, bad story
Faithful to Thee, Terra, in Our Fashion - Fun story
The Man Doors Said Hello To - Good story
The Man Who Walked Home - Interesting idea
Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket - Good story
I'll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool Is Empty - Interesting idea
I'm Too Big but I Love to Play - Pointless
Birth of a Salesman - Fun space story
Mother in the Sky with Diamonds - Didn't like it
Beam Us Home - Didn't like it

Even so, I will look for her novels.

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LibraryThing member jwhenderson

The groundbreaking and fantastical tales of Alice B. Sheldon, written under the pen name James Tiptree Jr., are some of the best science fiction short stories of the twentieth century, depicting dystopian chases, alien sex, and the loneliness of the universe.
"What her writing offered to the genre

was a blend of poetry and ingenuity, as if some poet had rewritten a number of deftly written science fiction standards and then passed them on to a psychiatrist," said one reviewer.

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