TALES OF THE QUINTANA ROO

Tiptree, James, Jr. [pseudonym of Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon]

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ISBN 10: 0870541528 ISBN 13: 9780870541520

Published by Arkham House: Publishers, Sauk City, WI, 1986

Language: English

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TALES OF THE QUINTANA ROO

Publisher

Arkham House: Publishers, Sauk City, WI

Publication Date

1986

Language

English

ISBN 10

0870541528

ISBN 13

9780870541520

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Glennray Tutor

Edition

First edition, first printing.

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Three stories deal with a realm of dead souls, a time warp that leads back to the Mayan past, and a mysterious world beneath the sea

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In the early '70s Tiptree (the pseudonym of clinical psychologist Alice B. Sheldon), made a big splash in SF with a series of powerful, convoluted and misanthropic stories. The three recent tales included in this small, illustrated collection, however, show a certain mellowing. They are touristy romantic fantasies, all set in a Mayan region of the Yucatan Peninsula, the Quintana Roo. The heavy psychological freight that weighed down the earlier work remains, but the Mayans have been tritely cast in place of Tiptree's inscrutable aliens. In fact, her self-proclaimed "Mayaphilia" turns the Indians into one-dimensional objects of uncritical worship. Finally, these ghosts, gods incarnate and oceanic apparitions are pallid inventions with less impact than the unpleasant drawings that accompany them here.
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