Moorich2@aol.com wrote:
>
> Have I been fooled about gender? Certainly. I was
very surprised to learn
> that James Tiptree Jr. was a woman. Surprised but
pleased that she had
> pulled it off for so long. Of course, Robert
Silverberg who wrote an
> introduction to one of her collections proclaiming
his certainty of her
> maleness had egg on his face but he accepted it
gracefully. Whether he
> thought he had a special psychic ability or not I
cannot say. But life does
> have a way of slapping the absolutism out of
people.
Silverberg's introduction to WARM WORLDS AND OTHERWISE worth
quoting as an object lesson before we put this whole topic
away:
"It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that
I find absurd, for these is something ineluctably masculine
about Tiptree's writing. I don't think the novels of Jane
Austen could have been written by a man nor the stories of
Ernest Hemmingway by a woman, and in the same way I believe
the author of the James Tiptree stories is male."
BobT
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