James Tiptree Jr.

James Tiptree Jr. was the pen name of Alice Bradley Sheldon, an American science fiction and fantasy writer who used it from 1967 until her death in 1987. Her gender was not publicly known until 1977. Her debut story collection, Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home, came out in 1973, followed by the novel Up the Walls of the World in 1978 and Brightness Falls from the Air in 1985. Her stories include "The Women Men Don't See" and "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?", and she was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012.