Thanks for taking the time to type up Silverberg’s postscript in your comment. I was working from the original edition when I originally made this post. This is great stuff, and I’m glad to hear that Silverberg owned up to what he said in his own way.

-Jason

“Postscript–Three Years Later
Just before Christmas, 1976, came a letter in the familiar blue-ribbon typing, hesitantly confessing that “Tiptree” is the pseudonym of Dr. Alice B. Sheldon and hoping that I would not be too upset about having gone so far out on a limb with my insistence on “Tiptree’s” maleness. Quite a surprise package; and there I was in print upholding the ineluctable masculinity of “Tiptree’s” writing. Okay: no shame attaches. She fooled me beautifully, along with everyone else, and called into question the entire notion of what is “masculine” or “feminine” in fiction. I am still wrestling with that. What I have learned is that there are some women who can write about traditionally male topics more knowledgeably than most men, and that the truly superior artist can adopt whatever tone is appropriate to the material and bring it off. And I have learned–again; as if I needed one more lesson in it–that Things Are Seldom What They Seem. For these aspects of my education, Alli Sheldon, I thank you. And for much else.
–Robert Silverberg, February, 1978″