Annotated Short Stories

Tiptree's Fiction Described

                                                       Work         Collection

“Please Don’t Play with the Time Machine”    MeetMe

1968                                               

"Pupa Knows Best v.t. "Help"

Proselytizing insects come to spread their winged gospel                         

"Mama Come Home"

A spaceship of giant alien women arrives on earth and begins to take advantage of our men      

"Birth of a Salesman"      

"Faithful to thee, terra, in our fashion"        

Surviving terrans maintain earth’s reputation by running an honest ET-race-track

"The Man Doors Said Hello To"           

"The Snows Are Melted, the Snows…"   

“Happiness is a Warm Space Ship”     "Fault"        

“A Day Like Any Other”                      

1969                                               

"The Last Flight of Dr. Ain"                  

A scientist so loves the planet that he takes drastic steps to save it

"Your Haploid Heart"      

"Beam Us Home"  

Apparently unremarkable boy lives in interior Star Trek universe

1970

"I’m Too Big, but I Love to Play"        10,000 LY

"The Night-Blooming Saurian"   WarmWO

"Last Night and Every Night"      CrownStars

"And I Awoke and Found Me Here… " 

Aspiring young journalist interviews seasoned spacer who warns him abt the hopelessness of falling in love with aliens.

                                                      

1971

"And So On, And So On"                     

"Painwise"   

 "The Peacefulness of Vivian" 

The apparently perfect life style of Vivyan as he wanders from planet to planet is undercut by the fact that -- unbeknown to himself -- he has been programmed to be an Imperial spy

  "I’ll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool is Empty”

"Mother in the Sky with Diamonds"     1

1972                                               

"All the Kinds of Yes"                         WarmWO 
 "Amberjack" 

"And I Have Come Upon This Place…" 

Young anthropologist on first planet intuits something computers cannot scan

"The Man Who Walked Home”  

Experiment in time travel goes terribly wrong

"Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket"     10,000 LY

"On the Last Afternoon"  WarmWO

"The Milk of Paradise"     WarmWO

"Through a Lass Darkly"  WarmWO

1973                                               

TEN THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME (SS1)     

"Love is the Plan the Plan is Death"    *Nebula

Tender but grisly love-story told from the perspective of a male nurturer

"The Girl Who was Plugged In”  *Hugo 

Girl wi genetic problems agrees to be hooked into neural network but love does not conquer all

"The Women Men Don't See"   

After a plane crash in the Yucatan, two anonymous women find another ride to a different home

  

1974                                               

"Her Smoke Rose Up Forever"             StarSongs Smoke Rose

                                                       "Angel Fix" (as Racoona Sheldon)      Out of EveryW

                                                       "The Earth Doth Like a Snake Renew"          CrownStars

1975                                               

WARM WORLDS AND OTHERWISE (SS2)         

"A Momentary Taste of Being"   StarSongs  Smoke

“Press Until the Bleeding Stops”          Meet Me Inf

1976                                               

"Houston, Houston, Do You Read?"*Nebula *Hugo *Jupiter

Brilliant novella abt 3 men catapulted into a non-heterosexual future

"Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces…" 

Women’s lib as a kind of schizophrenia: young suburban matron takes off walking West, thinking she is a Courier in a universe partially based on Longfellow’s Hiawatha

"The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do …"         StarSongs

"She Waits for All Men Born"     StarSongs & Smoke

"Beaver Tears" (as Racoona Sheldon)          Out of EveryW

1977                                               

revealed her identity                         

"The Screwfly Solution"(as Racoona Sheldon)  *Nebula

Unsettling exploration of how an alien species exploits our linkage of sex and violence

"Time-Sharing Angel"      Out of EveryW

1978                                               

STAR SONGS OF AN OLD PRIMATE (SS3)         

UP THE WALLS OF THE WORLD (N1)     
"We Who Stole the Dream"       Out of EveryW

1980                                               

"Slow Music"                                      Out of EveryW

1981                                               

OUT OF THE EVERYWHERE and OTHER EXTRAORDINARY VISIONS (SS4)         

"A Source of Innocent Merriment"       Out of EveryW

"Out of the Everywhere"   Out of EveryW

"With Delicate Mad Hands"   
           Poignant tale of pig-snout girl called by love to the stars

"Lirios: A Tale of the Quintana Roo"   Tales QRoo

"Excursion Fare"

A pair of adventurous young balloonists rescued by what appears to be a hospice ship discover the limits of human freedom

1985                                               

BRIGHTNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR (N2)        

"Morality Meat" (as Racoona Sheldon) CrownofStars

1985                                               

BYTE BEAUTIFUL: EIGHT SCIENCE FICTION STORIES (none new)       

 "All This and Heaven Too"        CrownofStars

“Trey of Hearts”                                Meet Me

1986                                               

THE STARRY RIFT (N2a)(3 stories set in same universe as Brightness Falls)   

"Our Resident Djinn"       CrownofStars

"Collision"   StarryRift

                                                      

1986                                               

TALES OF THE QUINTANA ROO (4 SS)  

1987                                               

commits suicide with terminally ill husband   

"In Midst of Life"   CrownofStars

"Second Going"     CrownofStars

"Yanqui Doodle"    CrownofStars

1988                                               

CROWN OF STARS (SS5) (10 ss; all new)      

"Backward, Turn Backward"       CrownofStars

"Come Live with Me"       CrownofStars

“The Color of Neanderthal Eyes”          MeetMeInf

“The Earth Doth Like a Snake Renew”  CrownStars

1990                                               

HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER (18 ss; none new)

                                                                        

2000                                               

MEET ME AT INFINITY (SS and essays)           

“The Trouble is Not in Your Set”          Meet Me