When asked for biographical details, Tiptree / Sheldon was forthcoming in everything but gender.

Tiptree / Sheldon was an eclectic writer who worked in a variety of styles and subgenres, often combining the technological focus and hard-edged style of " hard " science fiction with the sociological and psychological concerns of " soft " SF, and some of the stylistic experimentation of the New Wave movement.

The Clareson Award was presented to the Tiptree Motherboard for “ outstanding service activities – promotion of SF teaching and study, editing, reviewing, editorial writing, publishing, organizing meetings, mentoring, and leadership in SF / fantasy organizations .”

Anonymity is directly related to the concept of obscurantism or pseudonymity, where an artist or group attempts to remain anonymous, for various reasons, not limited to: adding an element of mystique to themselves and / or their work, attempting to avoid what is known as the " cult of personality " or hero worship, where the charisma, good looks, wealth and / or other unrelated or mildly related aspects of the person ( s ) is the main reason for interest in their work, rather than the work itself ; also the ability to break into a field or area of interest normally dominated by males, such as James Tiptree, Jr, the famous science fiction author who was actually a woman named Alice Bradley Sheldon, as seems to also be the case with JT LeRoy.

The Shadow Speaker was a winner of the Carl Brandon Parallax Award, a Booksense Pick for Winter 2007 / 2008, a Tiptree Honor Book, a finalist for the Essence Magazine Literary Award, the Andre Norton Award and the Golden Duck Award and an NAACP Image Award nominee.

James Tiptree, Jr. ( August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987 ) was the pen name of American science fiction author Alice Bradley Sheldon, used from 1967 to her death.

After the death of Mary Hastings Bradley in 1976, " Tiptree " mentioned in a letter that his mother, also a writer, had died in Chicago — details that led inquiring fans to find the obituary, with its reference to Alice Sheldon ; soon all was revealed.

James Tiptree Jr., Alice Hastings Bradley, Alice Davey, Ann Terry, Mrs. Huntington D. Sheldon, are all names that Alice B. Sheldon has used to identify herself.

One well-known name, Tiptree, has assisted Sheldon in conveying feministic themes and beliefs to her audience.

The male persona of Tiptree granted Sheldon the ability to write things that Sheldon herself could not.

When comparing authority, the name James Tiptree Jr. has more authority than Alice B. Sheldon due to the fact that male authors were more respected during Sheldon ’ s era.

Sheldon continued writing under the Tiptree pen name for another decade.

Award winning science fiction authors Karen Joy Fowler and Pat Murphy created the James Tiptree, Jr. award in honor of Alice B. Sheldon on February 1991.

Sheldon influenced this award through her use of a masculine pseudonym, James Tiptree, Jr., demonstrating that there is no distinction in works of science fiction when written by either gender.

The award is named for Alice B. Sheldon, who wrote under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. By choosing a masculine nom de plume, having her stories accepted under that name and winning awards with them, Sheldon helped demonstrate that the division between male and female science fiction writing was illusory.

Years after " Tiptree " first published science fiction, Sheldon wrote some work under the female pen name " Raccoona Sheldon "; later, the science fiction world discovered that " Tiptree " had been female all along.

* 2006 The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente and Half Life by Shelley Jackson ; with special recognition for Julie Phillips ' biography of James Tiptree, Jr., James Tiptree, Jr .: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

* " On James Tiptree, Alice Sheldon and bake sales ", by Karen Joy Fowler

The name " Tiptree " came from a branded jar of marmalade, and the " Jr ." was her husband's idea.

The pseudonym was successfully maintained until the late 1970s, partly because, although " Tiptree " was widely known to be a pseudonym, it was generally understood that its use was intended to protect the professional reputation of an intelligence community official.

" There was speculation, based partially on the themes in her stories, that Tiptree might be female.

" Silverberg's article in particular, by taking one side, makes it clear that the gender of Tiptree was a topic of some debate.

Before the revelation of Sheldon's identity, Tiptree was often referred to as an unusually macho male ( see, e. g., Robert Silverberg's commentaries ) as well as an unusually feminist science fiction writer ( for a male ) — particularly for " The Women Men Don't See ", a story of two women who go looking for aliens to escape from male-dominated society on Earth.

( The Tiptree cookbook The Bakery Men Don't See, edited by WisCon co-founder Jeanne Gomoll, was nominated for a 1992 Hugo Award.

" It was also a period marked by the emergence of a greater variety of voices in science fiction, most notably the rise in the number of female writers, including but not limited to Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin and James Tiptree, Jr.

Alice Bradley Sheldon had a multiplicity of reasons to write under the pen name of James Tiptree, Jr .: she was a woman writing in the heavily male-dominated genre of science fiction ; she was a bisexual woman who may have wanted to avoid the inherent biases of her readers ; and she was a career intelligence officer, first in the Army Air Corps and then in the early years of the CIA, for whom concealment was a way of life.

This collection is notable for its introduction, " Who is Tiptree, What is He?

Novels such as " Half Life " by Shelley Jackson and " Light " by M. John Harrison have received the James Tiptree, Jr. award for incorporating themes of fantasy and sexuality.

The James Tiptree, Jr. Award is given in her honor each year for a work of science fiction or fantasy that expands or explores our understanding of gender ; funds for the award are raised in part by bake sales

* " It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree ’ s writing.

The James Tiptree, Jr. Award is an annual literary prize for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender.

Fundraising efforts for the Tiptree include publications ( two cookbooks ), " feminist bake sales ", and auctions.

In 2011, the Science Fiction Research Association gave its 2011 " Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service " to the Tiptree Motherboard.

In 2001, she was awarded the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award and was short-listed for the regional Commonwealth Writer ’ s Prize, Best Book Award, the Sunburst Award and the Spectrum Award.

The novel was shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award in 2006.

The strongest signal is 103. 5 FM, which comes from a small transmitter between Witham and Tiptree.

There is a drama club, ' Wickham Bishops Drama Club ', located centrally between Witham, Maldon and Tiptree in rural Essex.

Tiptree was a closeted bisexual woman writing secretly under a male pseudonym, and explored the sexual impulse as her main theme.

Barreiros's writing style, influenced by that of Robert Silverberg and James Tiptree, Jr, is distinctively sardonic and shows a marked tendency towards satire and black comedy.

) Tiptree Award juries traditionally consist of four female jurors and one male juror ( the " token man ").

This was also an allusion to the way the James Tiptree, Jr. Award group ( also founded after a discussion at a WisCon ) named itself after the fictitious male persona used by the writer long known as " James Tiptree, Jr .".

It was the first of Tiptree's works published after the revelation that Tiptree was a female, rather than male, writer.