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Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home is a short story collection by Alice Sheldon under the pen name of James Tiptree Jr. that was first published in 1973. This was the first book Sheldon published.

Contents

• Introduction by Harry Harrison
• "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side"
• "The Snows Are Melted, The Snows Are Gone"
• "The Peacefulness of Vivyan"
• "Mamma Come Home" (a.k.a. "The Mother Ship")
• "Help" (a.k.a. "Pupa Knows Best")
• "Painwise"
• "Faithful to Thee, Terra, in Our Fashion" (a.k.a. "Parimutuel Planet")
• "The Man Doors Said Hello To"
• "The Man Who Walked Home"
• "Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket"
• "I'll Be Waiting for You When the Swimming Pool Is Empty"
• "I'm Too Big But I Love to Play"
• "Birth of a Salesman"
• "Mother in the Sky with Diamonds"
• "Beam Us Home"

External links

• The book at fantasticfiction.co.uk
• Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database