James Tiptree Jr.

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever (2004)

"Ahead lies only the irreversible long decline. For the first time we know there is nothing beyond ourselves."when do you know that the book you've just read is one of your favorite books? that an author you've been reading is one of your favorite authors? probably a variety of factors come into ...

The Starry Rift (1994)

This is not actually a novel; it's three novellas, connected by setting (sort of -- in the same universe, and same version of humanity's future, but with no characters in common) and by the conceit that the stories are all a sort of well-researched historical fiction that alien students of the fu...

Meet Me At Infinity: The Uncollected Tiptree: Fiction and Nonfiction (2001)