, an examination of a remarkable woman who wrote genderbending science fiction stories while leading, in effect, a double life. Writing as James Tiptree, Jr., she led editors and readers alike to believe that she was a man for ten years. Robert Silverberg famously wrote an introduction to an anthology of her work in which he dismissed rumors about Tiptree's gender because of the 'ineluctably masculine' nature of 'his' writing. Soon afterward, Tiptree was revealed to be 'an old lady in Virginia' named Alice Sheldon. more ›