David Brin talks about why we need to restore optimism to #scifi. Amen.http://ow.ly/aEYfd
David Brin talks about why we need to restore optimism to #scifi. Amen.http://ow.ly/aEYfd
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Lazarus 9:20 am on May 3, 2012 Permalink
“James Tiptree, Jr.”? The cats been out of the bag for decades and everyone knows that that was really Alice Sheldon. I guess it’s a Mark Twain type of thing where the non-de-plume takes on a literal life that overshadows the individual. But in this case I thought it would have been more appropriate to just go with the real author’s name.