Tales of the Quintana Roo

Jr. James Tiptree

ISBN 10: 0870541528 / ISBN 13: 9780870541520

Published by Arkham House Pub, 1986

About this Item

jacket has a small tear.

Seller Inventory # 89705

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tales of the Quintana Roo
• Publisher: Arkham House Pub
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870541528
• ISBN 13: 9780870541520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Glennray Tutor
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

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Synopsis

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

Reviews

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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