I'm still reading the Tiptree bio. Getting close to the end; I'm becoming more and more aware of what I had put out of my mind for much of it, the knowledge that it ends with her killing herself and her husband.<\/p>\n
But right now, I'm still fascinated by the look at her life. I used almost no book darts in the first half of the book; but right around the time when she became a science fiction writer, there started to be more and more that I wanted to bookmark and\/or comment on.<\/p>\n
The part that I'm really loving at the moment is the excerpts from letters written to Tiptree after she was exposed\/came out as female. There are lovely notes from several of her epistolary friends, most particularly Le Guin. (Added later: I meant to also mention that I found Silverberg's response especially gracious, given the whole \"ineluctably masculine<\/a>\" thing.)<\/p>\n And I've always liked Russ's work, but her letters quoted throughout this book make me like her even more. I just read the letter on pp. 370-371 in which she propositions Tiptree\/Sheldon; it's lovely. In a book filled with people who didn't seem to understand Sheldon--most notably, in this section, her psychologist, who seems to me to have given her some stupendously bad advice--it's really nice to see someone who understood and appreciated her for who she was.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m still reading the Tiptree bio. Getting close to the end; I’m becoming more and more aware of what I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speculative-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}