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James Tip tree Jr was a hoax (and a very convincing one) perpetrated on the sf establishment by Alice (or Raccoona) Sheldon, an experimental psychologist who had worked as an intelligence agent during World War II (the latter role contributing to the personality which she built up around ‘Tip’, as ‘he’ was affectionately known). She started writing for Analog (the new name for Astounding) in 1968, and her true identity was not revealed until 1976.
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Los Gatos consisted of a tarpaper whorehouse and a line of enormous lead slot-machines, called the Wise Men. They were got up to caricature the Three Kings of Bethlehem…. But the most impressive feature of Los Gatos was a huge wrought-iron sign stretching over the whole road, which said:
THE GENTILE WHITE MAN IS THE KING OF THE EARTH.
I never stopped to play the slot machines. Because I know this did not mean Me. Call me a wise man.
(Alice Sheldon writing as James Tiptree Jr for the Khatru symposium, 1975)
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Shaw, D.B. (2000). ‘Your Haploid Heart’: James Tiptree Jr and Patterns of Gender. In: Women, Science and Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287341_6
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