First edition. Dust jacket has small spot bottom front; now in new removable protecive cover. Black cloth covered boards with gold print on spine. Beige end papers with colored fibers. Prior owner's name on front free end paper. Pages clean and umarked. Arkham House hard cover with dust jacket, first edition (stated), March 1986, ISBN: 9780870541520, unpaginated (but actual count is 111 pages), cover and interior art by Glennray Tutor. 8vo (5.75" x 8.5") Winner, 1987 World Fantasy Award, Best Collection. Three stories and an essay: A Note About the Mayas of the Quintana Roo, essay by James Tiptree, Jr.; stories: What Came Ashore at Lirios (nominated, 1982 Nebula Award; 9th place, 1982 Locus Award); The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever (2nd place, 1983 Locus Award; nominated, 1983 Hugo Award); Beyond the Dead Reef (winner, 1984 Locus Award).

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Title: Tales of the Quintana Roo
Publisher: Arkham, Sauk City, WI
Publication Date: 1986
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0870541528
ISBN 13: 9780870541520
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Glennray Tutor
Edition: first edition.
Printing: 1st printing
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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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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