Unquestionably one of the brightestburning talents in the constellation of science fiction The New York TimesWritten under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr the pioneering and outlandish tales of Alice B Sheldon are some of the greatest science fiction short stories of the twentieth century telling of dystopian chases alien sex and the loneliness of the universeWhat her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness as if some poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst Brian AldissFeminist dystopian fiction owes just as much to this woman who wrote as a man as Margaret Atwood Vox
