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Imaginary Worlds

The Mysterious James Tiptree

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Science Fiction

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Science fiction writer James Tiptree Jr. wouldn't talk on the phone or appear in person. He developed friendships with contemporaries like Ursula le Guin and Philip K. Dick purely through letters. And he became a mentor to Chelsea Quinn Yarbro when she was an up-in-coming writer. But James Tiptree Jr. didn't really exist. He was the pen name of a 60-year old suburban housewife named Alice Sheldon. Biogrpaher Julie Philips says Sheldon's real life story was even more surreal than her alter ego. With readings by Erik Bergmann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about how we create them and why we suspend

1:04.6

our disbelief. I'm Eric Mollinsky.

1:16.0

That's actor Eric Bergman, reading from The Women Men Don't See by James Tiptree Jr.

1:21.9

In Tiptree's story, a small plane crashes in the jungle. At the end, aliens show up.

1:29.4

In the protagonist, he tries to fight them off. Till he realizes that the women he was

1:36.3

trying to save, engineered the plane crash so they could find the aliens.

1:59.4

We don't mind what your planet is like. We learn. We'll do anything. We won't cause any

2:05.5

trouble, please. Oh, please.

2:08.3

The skiff is drifting farther away. But I can only shuffle Nightmare like in the ooze,

2:15.2

hearing that damn voice box wheeze.

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