


Even good men are complicit in women's oppression, as in her most famous stories THE WOMEN MEN DON'T SEE and HOUSTON, HOUSTON, DO YOU READ? or in ecocide.

Sheldon's best stories combine radical feminism with a tough-minded tragic view of life even virtuous characters are exposed as unwitting beneficiaries of disgusting socio-economic systems. Most of her books are collections of short stories, of which HER SMOKE ROSE UP FOREVER is considered to be her best. Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon wrote most of her fiction as James Tiptree, Jr - she was making a point about sexist assumptions and also keeping her US government employers from knowing her business.
