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storytitle: The Other Angelas
firstname: Christopher
lastname: Barzak
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<a href="http://www.pindeldyboz.com/cbangelas.htm">"The  Other Angelas"</a>
  <p> Only semi-tiptroid, but it's a brilliant and charming story.--ukl</p>
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storytitle: This Tragic Glass
firstname: Elizabeth
lastname: Bear
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<a href="http://www.scifi.com">SciFi.com</a>
  <p>What if we could determine the biological gender of poets based on something 
    measurable in their words? Even if that poet's outwardly expressed gender 
    differed? This story was part Shakespeare In Love part Connie Willis' Fire 
    Watch, and anyone who is a sucker for &quot;writer stories&quot; will like 
    it, too.--ct</p>
  <p>A relatively straightforward but intricate story with sound scholarship and 
    moving characterizations. Keats is kind of a bore, but on the whole, this 
    story strikes at the heart of how gender informs authorship, and vice versa.- 
    ad</p>
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storytitle: Burning Day
firstname: Glenn
lastname: Grant
firstname2: Claude
lastname2: Lalumiere
booktitle: Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic
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  <p>I love a story that goes right through exploring what it means to be male 
    or female and ends up getting at what it means to be human. This is a stylish, 
    action-laden science fiction story, not a navel-gazer.--ct</p>
  <p>A well-plotted story in Hardboiled Mode -- people smoking cigarettes even 
    though they're androids, and cracking wise, and driving cars in cities, all 
    very TV-cop show. More about species than gender, but has an original twist 
    in the emphasis on the desire/compulsion to reproduce one's kind.--ukl</p>
  <p>An interesting examination of sexuality and gender-how do expectations still 
    influence &quot;post-humans&quot;-with film noir detective-story tropes.--mm</p>
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firstname: Victoria
lastname: Garcia
booktitle: Unspeakable Vitrine
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  <p>To me, the story that qualifies this uneven, entertaining collection as of 
    interest to Tiptreers is &quot;Wally's Porn,&quot; which is funny and touching.--ukl</p>
  <p>&quot;Anthropology&quot; is a fun look at relationships too.--mm</p>
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firstname: Hiromi
lastname: Goto
booktitle: Hopeful Monsters
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  <p>Goto writes with vigor and energy, in a voice very much her own. &quot;Night&quot; 
    and &quot;Tales from the Breast,&quot; are both real Tiptroid fantasies, though 
    you mightn't think so till right towards the end of both.--ukl</p>
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firstname: Elizabeth
lastname: Hand
booktitle: Mortal Love
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  <p>A gorgeous and rococo (at times) set piece of a novel--could have used more 
    exploration of the vampiric femme fatale for Tiptree purposes.--ad</p>
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firstname: Anne
lastname: Harris
booktitle: Inventing Memory
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  <p>A message of hope about the possibility of inventing a new world by understanding 
    one's own history and the history of the larger world. . . Goddesses in a 
    science fiction context.--mm </p>
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firstname: Marie
lastname: Jakober
booktitle: Even the Stones
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      <p>(2004, revised from the 1993 Gullveig Books edition of High 
        Kamilan)</p>
  <p> No gender bending, but a serious, realistic, and grown-up novel of male-female 
    power relationships, which is so unusual in &quot;high fantasy&quot; as to 
    be practically invisible to many readers.--ukl</p>
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firstname: Ian
lastname: McDonald
booktitle: River of Gods
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  <p>&quot;Nutes&quot;, a third sex, have had their sex organs removed and a sex-command 
    centre placed in subtle ridges down &quot;yt's arms. The same Dream Surgeon 
    who performed these operations also does operations for AIs, called Aeais. 
    The plot works interestingly around the world of Nutes and Aeais and humans 
    plugging into the Aeai's communication lines by &quot;lighthoeks.&quot;--jc</p>
  <p>In addition to looking at how women might fare in India when the male/female 
    ratio has become skewed with so many more males than females, a whole new 
    gender is possible, surgically brought about.--mm<br>
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firstname: Kat
lastname: Meads
booktitle: Sleep
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  <p>This is a fierce, unrepentantly experimental, somewhat raw novel about motherhood 
    in a highly gray utopia. The societies depicted are pitch perfect and the 
    entire narrative is filled with edginess and a great sadness as we see how 
    families become molten in a postmodern economy.--ad</p>
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firstname: Terry
lastname: Pratchett
booktitle: Monstrous Regiment
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  <p>Terry Pratchett is very good at making fun of things, and in this book he 
    makes fun of archaic gender roles through a tried and true method: by dressing 
    up his heroine as a male and marching her off to war. Only it being Pratchett, 
    the farce escalates as quickly as the war, and we soon discover that not only 
    are the other soldiers in the &quot;monstrous regiment&quot; vampires and 
    trolls and the like, most of them are cross-dressing too. It's vintage Pratchett, 
    which you will either love or hate depending on whether he is funny or tiresome 
    to you. Now if only we could be so sure that those archaic gender roles are 
    actually a thing of the past.-ct</p>
  <p>Some nice perceptions of maleness and femaleness; genuinely funny when not 
    merely facetious; charming and plausible when not glib and overconfident. 
    Heterosexuality is assumed as the norm, to the point of sniggers and cute 
    innuendoes about homosexuals. Is this 1944? That, and a certain artificiality 
    or calculation in the central gender concern, are bad flaws in a good read.--ukl</p>
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storytitle: Romance for Augmented Trio
firstname: Tom
lastname: Purdon
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periodical: Asimov's SF
date: 200402
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  <p> --feels almost like a challenge story to lead to this concluding statement: 
    &quot;...the obsolete human and the future human had to start reconstructing 
    the relationship they had been fashioning before the aberrant human interrupted 
    them.--jc</p>
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storytitle: Time's Swell
firstname: Victoria
lastname: Somegyi
firstname2: Kathleen
lastname2: Chamberlain
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periodical: Strange Horizons
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  <p>An eerie, very disturbing piece about prostitution and mysterious time travelers. 
    Maybe a little bit too elliptical but the characters' dulled reactions spoke 
    a lot to the objectification of bodies.--ad</p>
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firstname: Peter
lastname: Verhehst
booktitle: Tonguecat
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  <p>This novel is structured with colliding, disorienting stories which act like 
    a string of chants to keep us from the base-line of the book: the awfulness 
    of war. And there's an exploration of gender in the stress of this urban violence: 
    Ulrike, Prometheus's lover and guide through the underworld, is also Tonguecat 
    the prostitute who can tell and retell stories.--jc</p>
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storytitle:
firstname: N. Lee
lastname: Wood
booktitle: Master of None
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  <p>A gender-exploration tale in the classic mold: lone man on the planet of 
    women. Wood manages to find a few patches of fresh ground here, in a branch 
    of the sf genre that was once a staple but now is rarely explored without 
    irony--that of the self-consciously Utopian world. If you like a dash of up-front 
    politics in your science fiction, this book is for you.--ct</p>
  <p>This novel reminds me how much our beliefs about gender are cultural-a role 
    reversal of power from male to female with some subtle side plots and interesting 
    minor characters.-mm</p>
  <p>Epic planetary gender-reversal with good world-building and empathic characters 
    of all stripes. But the main character is straight out of central casting 
    for Male Scientist Who Saves Planet.-ad</p>
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storytitle: 
firstname: Will
lastname: Roscoe
booktitle: Changing Ones
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publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
year: 2000
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special mention 
  <p>--Nonfiction that would be of interest to anybody interested in the Tiptree. 
    It is about &quot;berdache&quot; -- men who took/take women's roles and women 
    who took/take men's roles, or as Roscoe calls it, third and fourth genders, 
    in Native American societies and cultures, from first contact through the 
    present. I have never read anything that gave me so many and such useful different 
    ways to think about sex/gender. (It involves in fact a total, non-European, 
    non-binary redefinition of gender.) It is extremely well written; the scholarship 
    and research is as careful as it is readable. It is generous-hearted (he never 
    sneers at anybody because they didn't know what we know, or were benighted 
    for one reason or another). It is tough-minded. It is a splendid book.--ukl</p>
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storytitle:
firstname: Samuel R.
lastname: Delany
booktitle: Stars in my Pockets like Grains of Sand
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special mention
<p>20th anniversary republication</p>
  <p>The prologue has images that have stayed in my head since I first read it 
    (my memory was accurate when I reread it too). The rest of the book will &quot;play 
    with your head&quot;-a culture with the ability to decode your perfect sex 
    partner down to precise details and what an amazing variety of sex and gender 
    partners they have! &quot;When there are so may paths and parameters along 
    which and around which women-young, old, human, evelm, male, female, and neuter-can 
    develop both community and communion to be passed on to others, why should 
    you restrict yourselves to direct egg-and-sperm relations?&quot;--mm</p>