Hi all, I'd like to introduce myself. I'm male, Polish, 21 years old, an English Philology student. :o) I have only read one collection of stories by James ...
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valis_lives
Aug 12, 2001 3:22 am
Hello members of "The World of James Tiptree Jr"<br><br>The rumours of my death are exagerrated. As founder of the club, I was DELIGHTED to check back in after...
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nutou21
Aug 12, 2001 3:18 pm
I'd like to ask you about a scene in the story "Slow Music". In the basement of the sea station building where Peachthief lives, Jakko enters a room with a...
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jds1339
Aug 13, 2001 2:20 am
I'll make a guess here; please don't take this answer as definitive. But I would guess the quote is "Study War No More," or even "Ain't Gonna Study War No ...
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jds1339
Aug 13, 2001 2:26 am
Sorry; can't help you here. Alli was very much into poetry, but how far she got beyond the standard English/American poets I don't know. As someone not very ...
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nutou21
Aug 24, 2001 12:56 pm
Thanks for the asnwer. I really appreciate it! FOr me it's wonderful to be able to look beyond the text, into the author's mind/life, and then go back to it...
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NWhyte
Oct 16, 2001 1:00 pm
Hi,<br><br>I too have been tracking Hugo and Nebula award winners on my website at <a href=http://explorers.whyte.com/sf/...
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jds1339
Oct 19, 2001 10:55 pm
It may take me a little time, but I'll research this for you. I can't remember offhand, so I'll have to dig for it.<br><br>Jeff Smith...
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ide_cyan
Feb 20, 2002 12:30 am
A question for Jeff:<br><br>Do you know what the copyright status is on that story? (I assume it's complicated, being fanfic.)<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>It's an ...
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Andre Legault
aljoedre
Mar 14, 2002 6:15 am
During a scifi english course someone suggested that Alice Sheldon, aka Jame Tiptree Jr., was instrumental in the founding of the CIA. I have searched the net...
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jds1339
Apr 9, 2002 4:50 am
... This is not really the case. After WWII, she and her husband left the Army and went into private business. In 1952 or so, her husband (Huntington Sheldon)...
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Andre Legault
aljoedre
Apr 9, 2002 11:39 pm
... Not to undermine your authority, but my question was for a reliable source. What is your source of this information or your credentials that establish ...
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jds1339
May 8, 2002 7:12 pm
... Sorry, I shouldn't have just set it out so baldly. This is what she told me personally. Neither Sheldon talked about the CIA much--he was still involved...
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jds1339
May 8, 2002 7:29 pm
... Sorry, I answered this once but the post apparently never made it. Anyway, while I haven't looked up the specific paperwork for this story, at one point...
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valis_lives
May 30, 2002 1:19 pm
Question for JDS: What's the state of the Tiptree biography?...
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jds1339
May 31, 2002 6:47 pm
... I have not spoken with Julie Phillips lately, though I believe that she is in a productive writing phase right now. She has had two children since...
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davidlasky
Jun 12, 2002 10:11 pm
Hi Everyone, I am new to the world of Alice Sheldon, though I've known of Tiptree for many years. I was recently surprised to learn that she lived in McLean,...
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jds1339
Jun 13, 2002 7:31 pm
... She lived on Ramshorn Road, if you want to look that up on your map. (I knew where the house was, and the post office, but not where anything else in town...
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davidlasky
Jun 15, 2002 3:16 am
... map. ... Thanks, Jeff. I found a Ramshorn Drive on Yahoo Maps, which is not surprisingly in the Langley area, and a very short commute to the CIA. It's a...
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Gary
gary@...
Jun 15, 2002 11:36 pm
... Alli's first published comment about her real identity was written as several letters to Jeff and published in issue 7 of his fanzine, Khatru, in Feb. 1978...
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valis_lives
Jun 19, 2002 5:48 pm
That's great news about the reprints. Is it Arbor House? In the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, John Clute suggested the original paperback of "Ten Thousand...
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valis_lives
Jun 19, 2002 5:54 pm
Apropos of Minority Report (I also moderate a PKD club), does anyone know of a list of TV or film adaptations (or stage -- someone made a PKD book into an...
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Gary
gary@...
Jun 19, 2002 6:33 pm
... So far as I know, "Girl" is it. It was on a Sci-Fi Channel series called Welcome to the Paradox. I just happened to be channel surfing the day that it...
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Gary
gary@...
Jun 19, 2002 6:57 pm
My bad: the name of the show is simply "Welcome to Paradox" without the 'the.' Here's the only review I've managed to find, not surprisingly from the channel's...
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Gary
gary@...
Jun 20, 2002 8:01 am
Since I don't have Jeff's personal address, I'm posting this here... Dear Mr. Smith, It has occurred to me while reading Starmont Reader's Guide #22, Dozois' ...
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Gary
gary@...
Jul 31, 2002 7:40 pm
I've recently been in contact with Julie Phillips re her Tiptree biography. She says she's completed the first draft. Exciting news! As for my documentary...
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donna.fancourt
donna74uk
Sep 27, 2002 11:51 am
Hi everybody, I am a new member, and hope that I'm not asking a question that has been discussed before (although I did take a quick look through the archives...
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janvanek
Jan 10, 2003 3:32 pm
... As a Tiptree fan living where it's not quite easy to get her work (though I managed to run across - and subsequently cry over - across _Meet Me at...
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Gary
gary@...
Jan 13, 2003 8:18 am
... Life has intervened so I haven't had much time for the project. However, things are picking up as I've managed to make some interesting contacts recently....
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janvanek
Feb 5, 2003 11:08 am
I just chanced upon this at http://www.asimovs.com/discus/messages/2/592.html?#POST15835 Maybe GD has published it elsewhere and I am just repeating what is ...
