(among others), but she was also an artist and an art critic, an air force major, a CIA agent, a doctor of experimental psychology, and openly bisexual at a time when many women didn’t even dare try to be just one of those things. Not only was she a groundbreaking and award-winning science fiction writer who published under the pen name James Tiptree Jr. The characters in author Shimon Adaf’s novel discuss the story without reference to its author, but as soon as I looked it up, Sheldon became an instant hero of mine. The 1973 novellete “The Girl Who Was Plugged In,” by Alice Sheldon, was introduced to me by a book I’ve been translating from Hebrew.
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