Hello and welcome to the Travelcast, episode 400. The

Traplcast is a weekly audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories

by strange authors to strange listeners such as yourself.

I'm your host Norm Sherman.

Episode 400 folks and you know we like to do these centennial episodes up big and it's also March and

here on the treble cast that means women and aliens month the eighth annual in fact a month of

original work that we commissioned by women writers about aliens.

I'm excited to launch the month with a very exciting two-part production by one of my favorite authors, James Tiptree Jr., the novella,

We Who Stol the Dream. When popular science fiction writer of the 60s and 70s,

James Tiptree Jr. thought of by many then as one of the darlings of science fiction

publicly revealed that she was actually a woman named Alice Bradley Sheldon.

Readers and colleagues of the time, were predictably blown away.

James Tiptree Jr. was a pseudonym, you see,

and some people even suspected that,

assuming it was maybe somebody in the CIA, and they were close, but they never suspected

it to be a chick.

And thus we begin the fascinating life of Alice Bradley Sheldon.

An intelligent specialist and spy during World War II, she also later raised chickens,

because why not?

After her time in the CIA, at the age of 40, Sheldon went on to college and earned a PhD in experimental psychology.

Again, because why not?

40.

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