Flying Cups & Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Ever wonder what happened to the rest of the tea party when the saucers went off into space? Here’s your chance to find out! What would it be like to go to a club where you could buy an injection of sexiness? To grow up in a world where you didn’t know what gender you would be until puberty — and the discovery could be painful? To find yourself and your secret pitted against the entire United States government?

The James Tiptree, Jr. Award has been recognizing science fiction and fantasy novels and stories that explore and expand gender for the past six years. Although the award itself is given to one or two works of fiction a year, each jury also produces a “short list“ of notable works that were considered for the award.

This first anthology contains almost all of the short fiction that has either won or been short-listed in the first five years of the award. Contributors include Ursula K. LeGuin (“The Matter of Seggri” and “Forgiveness Day”), Eleanor Arnason, L. Timmel Duchamp, Carol Emshwiller, Kelley Eskridge, Graham Joyce and Peter F. Hamilton, R. Garcia y Robertson, Delia Sherman, and more.

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$22.00, trade paperback, 594 pages, Almost Out of Print!

The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3

Featuring excerpts from the winning novel by Geoff Ryman, as well as stories from the 2005 Tiptree short list (by Aimee Bender, Vonda McIntyre, and more). Earlier short lists are represented by Ted Chiang, and we have essays by Dorothy Allison, and L. Timmel Duchamp, among others.

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$14.95,Trade paperback, 274 pages

The James Tiptree Award Anthology 2

Featuring excerpts from the winning novels by Joe Haldeman and Johanna Sinisalo, as well as stories from the 2004 Tiptree shortlist and a selection of earlier winners and shortlisted stories. Other writers in this volume include Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Raphael Carter, Eileen Gunn, Ursula K. Le Guin, Nalo Hopkinson, and others. The nonfiction includes an essay from Tiptree’s biographer Julie Phillips, along with others by Nalo Hopkinson and Gwyneth Jones.

This is the second in a series of annual anthologies, the previous being, oddly enough, The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1. An earlier anthology, Flying Cups & Saucers, was published several years earlier. There is no overlap in stories among the anthologies. That would be so redundant!

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$14.95,Trade paperback, 250 pages

The James Tiptree Award Anthology 1

The first in a new series of anthologies celebrating the Tiptree Award, this volume gathers short fiction, novel excerpts and essays that were chosen by the Tiptree Award jurors in 2003, and in previous years. There is an excerpt from the winning novel, Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff, and short fiction by Richard Calder, Kara Dalkey, Carol Emshwiller, Sandra McDonald, Ruth Nestvold and Geoff Ryman. There are also stories by Karen Joy Fowler and Kelly Link from earlier award years; a new translation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen,” the story which inspired two modern retellings in this book; introductions by Karen Joy Fowler and Pat Murphy; new essays by Suzy McKee Charnas, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Joanna Russ; and a memoir by Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree herself. This anthology Booklist described the volume as “A superior array of creative and thoughtful writing for both genders.”

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$15.95, Trade paperback, 302 pages

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$1.00, Full color, non-permanent, 2" x 2"

Cumulative Tiptree List

Tiptree-winning and short-listed authors and titles, jurors’ names, art prizes and artists, ceremony sites, as well as lyrics from the songs to which the Tiptree winners were serenaded, can all be found on this list. In short, the cumulative list contains the history of the Tiptree Award. Of course you can find all that information on these pages, but if you want a nicely laid-out paper copy you can order it here.

$4.00, 8½" x 11", stapled

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Khatru 3&4: Symposium on Women in Science Fiction

Originally published and edited by Jeffrey D. Smith in 1975, this symposium on women in SF included writing by some of the most well-known authors (plus an agent) of 70s feminist science fiction: Vonda N. McIntyre, Virginia Kidd, Suzy McKee Charnas, Kate Wilhelm, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, (the still mysterious) James Tiptree, Jr., Samuel Delany, Joanna Russ, Raylyn Moore, Luise White and Jeffrey D. Smith. The opinions expressed by Khatru’s participants are still amazingly radical.

This version of Khatru 3 & 4 was published by the 1993 Corflu 10 committee, commemorating the role of feminist SF in Madison fandom. This version includes new material by original participants and commentary by others, including Jane Hawkins, Mog Decarnin, Pat Murphy, Karen Joy Fowler, Gwyneth Jones, and Jeanne Gomoll. New illustrations by Georgie Schnobrich.

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$18.00, 140 pages photocopy, 8 1/2" x 11"

Her Smoke Rose Up From Supper cookbook

This collection of main course recipes and anecdotes includes an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a Founding Mother of the Tiptree Award, and a gorgeous cover by collage-artist Freddie Baer.

The cookbook’s title is based on the Tiptree short story, “Her Smoke Rose up Forever.” Her Smoke Rose up from Supper includes main course recipes, tips, and cooking stories by 72 fans and science fiction professionals. Some of the contributing authors: Eleanor Arnason, Pat Cadigan, Suzy McKee Charnas, Phyllis Eisenstein, Suzette Haden Elgin, D.C. Fontana, Gwyneth Jones, Phyllis Ann Karr, Nancy Kress, Sarah Lefanu, Ursula K. Le Guin, Pat Murphy, Marge Piercy, Kit Reed, Michaela Roessner, Bill Rotsler, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pamela Sargent, Lewis Shiner, Susanna Sturgis, Lisa Tuttle and Joan D. Vinge.

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$10.00, 116 pages, spiral bound, 7" x 8½"

The Bakery Men Don’t See cookbook

This Hugo-Nominated collection of recipes and anecdotes includes Guest of Honor speeches from the 1991 WisCon Science Fiction Convention by Pat Murphy and Pamela Sargent. In her speech, Pat Murphy announced the creation of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.

The cookbook’s title is based on the famous short story by James Tiptree, Jr., “The Women Men Don’t See.” The Bakery Men Don’t See includes recipes for baked goods, tips and baking stories by 55 fans and SF professionals. Some of the contributing authors: Pat Cadigan, Ellen Datlow, D.C. Fontana, Karen Joy Fowler, Eileen Gunn, Phyllis Ann Karr, John Kessel, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, Pat Murphy, Michaela Roessner, William Rotsler, and Susanna J. Sturgis.

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$10.00, 96 pages, spiral bound, 7" x 8½"