Alien Plots: Female Subjectivity and the Divine in the Light of James Tiptree's �A Momentary Taste of Being'

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At the heart of this stimulating and provocative study is a science fiction story by James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon-Bradley, 1916–1987) about a brother and a sister (and 58 other human beings) who encounter an alien while on a starship traveling to discover a habitable planet. The book includes an outline of Tiptree’s work and of her remarkable life as the only child of...more

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Published April 1st 2000 by Liverpool University Press (first published 1996)

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