Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

I thought I'd read a lot of Tiptree stories, but as it turns out, no. The only story I recall maybe reading was "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" but even that may not be true. Oh, and I had recently read "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?"

Tiptree is a man-hating, sex-obsessed feminist. Her writing is unlike anything I've ever come across. The sex is always abusive and often gruesome and deadly. More than one story ends up with a woman literally leaving the entire human race behind to go live with aliens, because that's preferable to spending another moment on a world that includes men. To be fair, if I were a woman who lived in the societies that Tiptree portrays in her stories, I'd leave too.

I'm not sure I liked all the stories, and I'm quite sure that they aren't all science fiction. But they are good.

• The Last Flight of Dr. Ain
• The Screwfly Solution
• And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side
• The Girl Who Was Plugged In
• The Man Who Walked Home
• And I Have Come Upon This Place by Lost Ways
• The Women Men Don't See
• Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!
• Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
• With Delicate Mad Hands
• A Momentary Taste of Being
• We Who Stole the Dream
• Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
• Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death
• On the Last Afternoon
• She Waits for All Men Born
• Slow Music
• And So On, and So On