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petronius

(26,686 posts) Thu Jun 21, 2012, 02:37 PM Jun 2012

I get the weekly-ish emails from Tor (new stories!), and for Pride month this one highlighted the Queering SFF blog series. I did know somewhat about Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr), but I still found this article interesting (informative, thought-provoking, tear-jerking)...

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/06/queering-sff-pride-month-extravaganza-spotlight-on-james-tiptree-jr-alice-sheldon