Thus the 18 accomplished stories here will be welcomed by new listeners and old fans. ( Up the Walls of the World ) until her death in 1987, have been heretofore available mostly in out-of-print collections. The stories of Alice Sheldon, who wrote as James Tiptree Jr. The Nebula Award-winning short story "Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death", the Hugo Award-winning novella The Girl Who Was Plugged In, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella Houston, Houston, Do You Read? are included. Revisions from the author's notes are included, allowing a deeper view into her world and a better understanding of her work. These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphysics and epistemology, and gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind.
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