Out of the Everywhere

A good collection, coming out at 3.50, with nothing bad. The strongest story here is stuck in the middle - The Screwfly Solution. Some of these were 'Raccoona Sheldon' stories. Out Of the Everywhere : Angel Fix - James Tiptree Jr. Out Of the Everywhere : Beaver Tears - James Tiptree Jr. Out Of the Everywhere : Your Faces O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light! - James Tiptree Jr. Out Of the Everywhere : The Screwfly Solution - James Tiptree Jr. Out Of the Everywhere : Time-Sharing Angel - James Tiptree Jr. Out Of the Everywhere : We Who Stole the Dream - James Tiptree Jr. Out Of the Everywhere : Slow Music - James Tiptree Jr. Out Of the Everywhere : A Source of Innocent Merriment - James Tiptree Jr. Out Of the Everywhere : Out of the Everywhere - James Tiptree Jr. Out Of the Everywhere : With Delicate Mad Hands - James Tiptree Jr. Just a friendly alien good guy visit. 3.5 out of 5 Bannerman bedlam. 3 out of 5 Courier strange. 3.5 out of 5 Sex and violence. 4 out of 5 Too many people, need to slow down. 4 out of 5 Let's blow up some Terrans, steal a ship. 3.5 out of 5 We went down to The River and into lust. 3.5 out of 5 Second Expedition is safer. 3.5 out of 5 Cold Pig contact. 3.5 out of 5

Most of Tiptree's (Alice Sheldon's) short fictional works have appeared earlier and elsewhere. This is a new mix. All of her stories are excellent. The title story is almost a novella and one of her more hopeful stories, about an energic life form that takes refuge in various shapes on earth to escape a predator and so learns a little about human life and materiality. Tip has a delightful sarcasm in her comments on American culture. Her grasp of scientific possibilities is always amazing. Her writing is poetic and subtle and beautiful, much like that of Ursula LeGuin.