Tales of the Quintana Roo

Tales of the Quintana Roo
	Dust-jacket illustration by Glennray Tutor for Tales of the Quintana Roo
Author	James Tiptree Jr.
Illustrator	Glennray Tutor
Cover artist	Glennray Tutor
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1986
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	x, 101
ISBN	0-87054-152-8
OCLC	12372417
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 19
LC Class	PS3570.I66 T3 1986

Last updated January 19, 2026

Tales of the Quintana Roo is a collection of fantasy stories by American author Alice Sheldon, writing as James Tiptree Jr. It was released in 1986 and was the author's first book published by Arkham House. It was published in an edition of 3,673 copies. The stories originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and are set in the easternmost shore of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. In addition to winning the world fantasy award for best collection in 1987, each of the stories was nominated or won genre awards, and "What Came Ashore at Lirios" was included in the Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories.

Awards

The collection and the stories contained therein were nominated for a number of genre awards:^[2]

Tales of Quintana Roo (Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best collection, 1987)
"What Came Ashore at Lirios" (Nominated for a Nebula Award, 1981)
"The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever" (Nominated for a Hugo Award, 1982)
"Beyond the Dead Reef" (Winner of a Locus Award for best short story, 1983)

References

↑ "ISFDB entry on What Came Ashore at Lirios" . Retrieved March 20, 2011.
↑ Locus Publications. "James Tiptree Jr. Award". Index of Literary Nominees. Archived from the original on March 15, 2005. Retrieved February 27, 2011.

Sources

Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd.
Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
Joshi, S. T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City: Arkham House. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.

External links

Tales of the Quintana Roo title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Locus Publications. "Tales of the Quintana Roo". The Locus Index to Science Fiction. Retrieved March 20, 2011.

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[1] "ISFDB entry on What Came Ashore at Lirios" . Retrieved March 20, 2011.

[2] Locus Publications. "James Tiptree Jr. Award". Index of Literary Nominees. Archived from the original on March 15, 2005. Retrieved February 27, 2011.

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