Drabblecast 445 – Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death

The Drabblecast Audio Fiction Podcast

Norm Sherman

Comedy Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.8 • 975 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Drabblecast wraps up Women & Aliens month with a gritty and intense story by James Tiptree Jr., aka Alice B. Sheldon. Hope you’re hungry! Remembering— Do you hear, my little red? Hold me softly. The cold grows. I remember: —I am hugely black and hopeful, I bounce on six legs along the mountains in the […]

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0:00.0	Warning. This week's travel cast has some pretty suggestive language in it.
0:05.0	Suggestive of what?
0:06.0	Yeah, I mean good question.
0:08.0	Let's just say you probably don't want your kids tuning into this one.
0:11.0	Enjoy. Hello and welcome to the Drabblecast, episode 445. The Drabblecast is a weekly
0:29.7	audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories by strange authors to
0:33.9	strange listeners such as yourself.
0:36.9	I'm your host, Norm Sherman.
0:39.8	This week on the Dribble cast,
0:41.1	we wrap up Women and Aliens Month in style by bringing you a Mother's Day,
0:45.2	Valentine's Day, basically any kind of day you need it to be story by one of my all-time
0:49.6	favorite authors, James Tiptree Jr.
0:52.3	James Tiptree Jr. James Tiptree, but Norm, you said this was for women and aliens month.
0:58.0	Why, yes I did, Skeptic Southern Accented rhetorical me.
1:01.0	James Tiptree was the pen name for one of the most
1:03.9	interesting people and greatest SF writers you've probably never heard of or
1:08.1	probably have. I don't know. James Tiptree Jr. was the pseudonym of Alice B Sheldon, 1915 to 1987, who before turning to writing
1:17.8	had been a successful artist, a newspaper art critic, a World War II counterintelligence officer, a chicken farmer, a CIA agent, and a research psychologist.
1:28.0	After earning her PhD in psychology in 1967, she started writing science fiction short stories, using a pseudonym to protect her new academic
1:36.3	career and a male name to fit in better at the magazines. As Tiptree, she published two novels and
1:42.3	eight collections of fantastic short stories.
1:45.0	She won two Hugo Awards, three Nebula Awards, and one World Fantasy Award. Love is The Plan, The Plan Is Death, first appeared in the anthology The Alien Condition,
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