Star Songs of an Old Primate

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Star Songs of an Old Primate
Author	Alice Sheldon (as James Tiptree, Jr)
Country	USA
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction
Publisher	Del Ray Books
Publication date	1978
Media type	Print (Paperback)

Star Songs of an Old Primate is the third short story collection by Alice Sheldon (under the pen name James Tiptree, Jr). It was published by Del Rey Books in 1978. It was the first of Tiptree's works published after the revelation that Tiptree was a female, rather than male, writer.

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• Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin
• "Your Haploid Heart"
• "And So On, And So On"
• "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever"
• A Momentary Taste of Being"
• "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" (winner of Hugo Award, Nebula Award and Jupiter Award for novella in 1977)
• "The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats"
• "She Waits for All Men Born"