This debut anthology features short fiction, novel excerpts, and essays that have won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Created in 1991 to honor the innovative fiction of Alice Bradley Sheldon (who wrote under the pen name James Tiptree), the Tiptree Award is presented to speculative fiction that explores and expands gender roles—and in the process touches on the most fundamental of human desires: the need for sex, for love, and for acceptance. This collection includes thought-provoking essays by Suzy McKee Charnas, Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Pat Murphy, and Joanna Russ. Contents Introduction by Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler "Boys" by Carol Emshwiller "Birth Days" by Geoff Ryman "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Anderson "Everything but the Signature Is Me" by James Tiptree, Jr. "'Tiptree' and History" by Joanna Russ "The Lady of the Ice Garden" by Kara Dalkey "What I Didn't See" by Karen Joy Fowler "Travels With the Snow Queen" by Kelly Link Excerpts from Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff "The Catgirl Manifesto: An Introduction" by Richard Calder "Looking Through Lace" by Ruth Nestvold "The Ghost Girls of Rumney Mill" by Sandra McDonald "Judging the Tiptree" by Suzy McKee Charnas "Genre: A Word Only the French Could Love" by Ursula K. Le Guin