Comments on: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon http://b.rox.com/2008/02/08/the-double-life-of-alice-b-sheldon/ Life in the Flood Zone Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:01:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Rachel http://b.rox.com/2008/02/08/the-double-life-of-alice-b-sheldon/#comment-163563 Rachel Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:25:02 +0000 http://b.rox.com/2008/02/08/the-double-life-of-alice-b-sheldon/#comment-163563 Rats are good people! They'll survive anything and everything. They're also very smart and fun-loving. Rats are good people! They’ll survive anything and everything.

They’re also very smart and fun-loving.

]]> By: liprap http://b.rox.com/2008/02/08/the-double-life-of-alice-b-sheldon/#comment-163465 liprap Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:48:06 +0000 http://b.rox.com/2008/02/08/the-double-life-of-alice-b-sheldon/#comment-163465 Oooh, I just started reading this book , and I am in the middle of "Brightness Falls From The Air". Amazing stuff. Oooh, I just started reading this book , and I am in the middle of “Brightness Falls From The Air”. Amazing stuff.

]]> By: mike http://b.rox.com/2008/02/08/the-double-life-of-alice-b-sheldon/#comment-163461 mike Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:01:52 +0000 http://b.rox.com/2008/02/08/the-double-life-of-alice-b-sheldon/#comment-163461 Interesting. I remember really liking - and being baffled by - much of Tiptree's 1970s work in Analog when I was a kid. When it was finally revealed that he was a she, something clicked - the themes in Tiptree's work reflect the work of other 1970s SF writers that are women, such as LeGuin, and the use of and interest in biologically-oriented SF themes was a wonderful and instructive contrast to the two other streams of 1970s SF that dominated Analog at that time - dystopia and neo-rightist hard SF. Interesting. I remember really liking - and being baffled by - much of Tiptree’s 1970s work in Analog when I was a kid. When it was finally revealed that he was a she, something clicked - the themes in Tiptree’s work reflect the work of other 1970s SF writers that are women, such as LeGuin, and the use of and interest in biologically-oriented SF themes was a wonderful and instructive contrast to the two other streams of 1970s SF that dominated Analog at that time - dystopia and neo-rightist hard SF.

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