Tales of the Quintania Roo

Tiptree Jr, James; Tutor, Glennray (ills)

ISBN 10: 0870541528 / ISBN 13: 9780870541520

Published by Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1986

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black cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket unclipped, unpaginated, first edition, b&w illustrations agency stamp to front endpaper Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tales of the Quintania Roo
• Publisher: Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870541528
• ISBN 13: 9780870541520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Glennray Tutor
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good
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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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