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firstname: A.S.
lastname: Byatt
booktitle: Little Black Book of Stories
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  <p>None of the five stories bend gender very far--unless a woman turning bit 
    by jeweled bit into a troll counts, which I think it might, as troll sexuality 
    is either nonexistent or a very open question . . . But Byatt handles relationships 
    in a way that I think is essentially tiptroid. The stories are adventurous, 
    risk-taking (at least once to the point of falling flat on the face), nervy, 
    savvy, genuinely imaginative, and very, very well told.--ukl</p>
  <p>Beautiful, haunting stories that thoroughly have gender issues inhabiting 
    them. I particularly liked &quot;The Pink Ribbon&quot; and &quot;The Thing 
    in the Forest&quot;.--ad</p>
  <p>All of the stories are beautifully written; the use of the fantastic in &quot;The 
    Pink Ribbon&quot; &amp; &quot;Stone Woman&quot; gives an original and interesting 
    exploration of how cultural interactions affect the way we perceive gender 
    in ourselves and others.--mm </p>
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firstname: L. Timmel
lastname: Duchamp
booktitle: Love's Body, Dancing in Time
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  <p>I see most gender issues as cultural and the evocative details in &quot;The 
    Gift&quot; remind me that aspects of gender, sexuality and love that I sometimes 
    take for granted are actually societal assumptions.--mm </p>
  <p>&quot;The Heloise Archive&quot; startled in how effortlessly it shapeshifts 
    in all of its textual patterns--which are embedded in gender exploration. 
    The narrative structure is brilliant, archetypal and clumsy at the same time. 
    But I think it 's intentionally clumsy and archetypal and a brilliant attempt 
    at trying to create a new type of story where gender transgression inhabits.-ad</p>
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storytitle: All of Us Can Almost ...
firstname: Carol
lastname: Emshwiller
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  <p>A hilarious riff on the human condition. Power plays and sexual strut. And 
    what about hard wiring? The story could be read as a revenge story on stupid 
    males, but I think that would miss the point of this glorious flight of fantasy.--jc</p>
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firstname: Nancy
lastname: Farmer
booktitle: Sea of Trolls
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  <p>Published as Young Adult, a genre we ought to keep an eye on. Tiptroid mainly 
    in one character, a girl whom the protagonist and the reader think is a boy 
    for quite a while, largely because she wants so much to be one and is so angry 
    at not being one-a keen and canny portrait. Not world-shaking gender invention, 
    but an unpretentious, slyly edgy presentation of transgendering without surgery 
    or sf elements.--ukl </p>
  <p>The aspects of &quot;gendered jobs&quot; in early history are an interesting 
    addition to this YA novel. I love the little surprise about verse at the end.--mm</p>
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firstname: Eileen
lastname: Gunn
booktitle: Stable Strategies and Others
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  <p>Gunn doesn't address gender as a central issue in these stories, but it's 
    there, in the title story, in &quot;Nirvana High,&quot; and others, and the 
    take on it is marvelously dry and sly.-ukl</p>
  <p>Grunge as a curriculum in &quot;Nirvana High&quot; by Gunn and Leslie What 
    --what makes this story work in a Tiptroid fashion is the hard-to-do depiction 
    of teenagers with gifts, and using the ultra-male grunge music as a lens into 
    this society and into how femininity is constructed. Probably the faintest 
    &quot;pulse&quot; of Tiptroid materials of any of my shortlisters, but it's 
    there, and seamlessly embedded in the narrative.</p>
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firstname: Gwyneth
lastname: Jones
booktitle: Life
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  <p>From a conversation early in the book: &quot;Sex is in everything. I didn't 
    put it there. The most significant thing in your entire social and cultural 
    life is your assigned gender. Everything else comes after that fact, including 
    your relationship with technology.&quot; In many different ways, this novel 
    examines how gender affects our lives, our relationships with friends and 
    children, our jobs, etc. The scientific discussions work as metaphors for 
    gender and sexual issues.--mm</p>
  <p>The main characters are moved through their paces in order to present the 
    story of genes and chromosomes and the possibility of sexual shift in the 
    growing embryo. Woven through that story is the woman, Ramone, who describes 
    in heated hyperbole the contemporary fault-line of the sexual divide. Anna 
    is obsessive: she often talks about her work to her partner Spence. In another 
    conversation where she's been drawing triggers of regulatory proteins, he 
    adds his expertise: &quot;Well whadd'ya know. This is Boolean Algebra. These 
    are logic gates!&quot; So when the A1 SURI (who had joked that she should 
    have been named GAIA) was killed, it's an emotional blow. &quot;Yeah,&quot; 
    said Anna. &quot;You can clone her. But it won't be the same person.&quot; 
    The most interesting character to move through the social politics of this 
    book is Ramone who, at one point, suggests that Anna was right: &quot;Numbers 
    were everything. You can regard what went on in the battle of the sexes as 
    a chemical reaction, a fractional distillation... You could show how feminism 
    in the classical model was doomed...&quot; Ramone &quot;set up camp on the 
    border, on the actual fault-line of the Great Divide...&quot; and lived her 
    life accordingly.--jc</p>
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storytitle: Kissing Frogs
firstname: Jaye
lastname: Lawrence
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date: 200405
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  <p>Short, light, deft, elegant (and the author's first published story); one 
    of the few magazine stories we read that really, truly fit the Tiptree guidelines.--ukl</p>
    <p>A pleasing after-dinner mint of a story (I don't mean that as a slur) that 
    is very funny and does exactly what it sets out to do.--ad</p>
    <p>I almost always like &quot;revisions&quot; of a well-known tale. This whimsical 
    version of the frog who can change into a prince with a kiss--told through 
    the medium of &quot;looking for a partner&quot; ads--made me smile and stop 
    to think about gender issues in our society.--mm</p>
