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Birth of a Salesman

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  • In James Tiptree, Jr.

    …first story Tiptree published, “Birth of a Salesman” (1968), was characteristic of her early stories in that it was a humorous variation on a standard science fiction theme. Tiptree came into her own with the calmly apocalyptic “The Last Flight of Dr. Ain” (1969; revised 1974). A biologist in…

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