Puzzle Description:

The logo of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, an annual award recognizing science fiction that "explores and expands gender."

#1: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Feb 19, 2011 [SPOILER]

I'm not familiar with this award. Wondering how one expands gender... I have been known to say, when asked whether my brother and I are identical twins, "We used to be, until the accident."

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Nice. Good solve, interesting topic.

I think it's worthwhile to note that James Tiptree was the pen name of a female author who wrote under a male pseudonym because of rigid perceptions of gender expectations (do people read books differently because the author is male or female? Especially in the field of science fiction, where male authors have normally been dominant). And I'm curious about why Bug said what he (she?) did.

Found to be logically solvable by Gator.

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Thanks for the comments!

I used the same logic bugaboo describes when I proved to myself that it was solvable enough to put up here.

A little background on the image - Liz P has already commented on why the award is named as it is, and the issues that it raises - I'll just share that there's a lot more information at tiptree.org, which is their official page.

I made this puzzle because I was reading and enjoying an anthology they published, and I noticed the really neat symmetry in their logo running at an off-grid angle. Glad other people are having fun solving it!

Nice puzzle

Very fun puzzle to solve.

Are you a sci-fi fan? I'm not really, but I absolutely got hooked on the works of David Gerrold. I kept waiting for years for his next book in the series he had been working on, when I finally learned he had adopted a child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Then he wrote "The Martian Child." Pretty cool short book, that I think might have been made into a movie. Anyway, I think Gerrold should have been nominated for this award for his other books. Any Gerrold fans out there?

Don't know the award, but this is a very interesting image. It was fun to do, even though I had to guess twice. I probably just started wrong.

Nice puzzle. Enjoyed the solve..Thanks!

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