Currently Reading #42

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Now moved on to James Tiptree, Jr.'s Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home, which is a collection of short stories. Published in 1973, it predates the revelation that Tiptree was, in fact, Alice Sheldon, and not "a man who knew how to interest me, entertain me, and tell me something about the world and mankind's affairs all at the same time*" at all.

The stories are varied, in subject and approach as well as style, although there's a couple that feature the same characters using history to solve alien-related problems. So far, a collection worth picking up.

*Introduction, by Harry Harrison.