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Brightness Fall From Air (Paperback)

de JAMES JR. TIPTREE (Author)
3.7étoiles sur 5  Voir tous les commentaires (6 évaluations de client)

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James Tiptree, Jr., was actually Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon (1915-1987), a fact she kept secret for the first ten years of her meteoric career under the Tiptree pseudonym, as she won awards and acclaim. The truth came out in 1977. She also wrote as Raccoona Sheldon. She was born in Chicago, but spent much of her childhood in Africa and India. Her father was a lawyer and traveler. Her mother, Mary Hastings Bradley, was a well known geographer, traveler, and author of 35 books, who also wrote a successful children's book of which Alice was the heroine. After leaving her first career in the CIA in 1955, Sheldon got a Ph.D. in experimental psychology in 1967 and began her writing career. She won the Hugo, Nebula and Jupiter awards for her short fiction. Today, the annual Tiptree Award, for SF that explores and expands gender roles, is given in her memory.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Strong Premise; Poor Writing, Jui 8 2004
Par "dhowenstine" (Seattle, WA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: Brightness Falls (Cloth) (Hardcover)
In Brightness Falls from the Air, Ms. Triptree has written a rich yet unsatisfactory novel. Ms. Triptree's characters are an interesting collection and the general backdrop of the novel is well staged. Yet the novel is consistently hindered by the short-sighted and outright unintelligent attitudes of the characters. As such, what might have been a sophisticated novel soon becomes tedious and trite. Ms. Triptree does provide a final, dark revelation that proves eerily satisfying -- but ultimately it is the writing, not the plot, that prevents this novel from ever taking flight.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Beautiful novel by one of SF's greatest short story authors, Juil 31 2000
Par "sdixonsf" (San Francisco, CA United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
One of the most surprising announcements in science fiction history was when award-winning but reclusive science fiction writer James Tiptree, Jr. revealed that she was actually Dr. Alice Sheldon.

Sheldon wote some of the best short fiction of the 70s, including such classics as "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" (which anticipated many cyberpunk themes years before William Gibson), "The Women Men Don't See", and "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?".

Brightness Falls from the Air was Sheldon's second (and final) novel. Although Sheldon's best work was certainly in her short stories, my favorite thing about this novel was seeing Sheldon express many of her recurring themes in a longer form, weaving several seemingly disparate plot lines into one. The novel works well both as a mystery and as science fiction, and offers a nice helping of excitement as well.

This is one of my favorite science fiction novels of all time, and is an excellent introduction to the work of James Tiptree, Jr.

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1.0étoiles sur 5 I could barely finish it..., Fév 10 1999
Par J. Claro (Halifax, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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I am really surprised to see the 4 and 5 star ratings other readers gave this book. One of Tiptree's short stories 'Love Is The Plan The Plan Is Death' is one of my favorite short stories of all time, very moving, brilliantly written. I can't believe 'Brightness Falls...' was even written by the same author. Shallow characters, very slow pace, unnatural conversation, unconvincing plot. I was very disappointed by this book.
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