It's rare to see public accolades to Alice Sheldon, especially, as this article notes, when gender politics are so mainstream. Almost all her fiction was devote

It's rare to see public accolades to Alice Sheldon, especially, as this article notes, when gender politics are so mainstream. Almost all her fiction was devoted to analyzing gender-related issues but in a widely innovative way. Her story Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death is my favorite (http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/love-is-the-plan-the-plan-is-death/ http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/love-is-the-plan-t...), With Delicate Mad Hands is a close second. The Girl Who Was Plugged in influenced Neuromancer (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17338035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17338035), Houston, Houston, Do You Read? is a classic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_Houston,_Do_You_Read%3F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_Houston,_Do_You_Read%...) From a well-written Amazon review of her story collection: ""Love is the plan..." is my favorite science fiction short story, and one of the best short stories of any kind ever written. It has not a single human character, and depicts the unbearably touching efforts of a gigantic, heavily-armored, multi-limbed alien to tackle and solve three deadly problems faced by his species, two internal--- stemming from instinctively programmed behavior--- and one external, a global climate change. That he will fail, and why he will fail, is evident early on from many clues fairly planted within the narrative. But he does his level best, which is indeed far better than you and I could hope to do, and like most Tiptree aliens, he is totally charming and lovable throughout his hopeless task."