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A Momentary Taste of Being

by James Tiptree Jr.

A Momentary Taste of Being by James Tiptree Jr. was a finalist or poll selection for the 1976 Nebula Award for Best Novella.

"A Momentary Taste of Being" is a science fiction novella written by Alice Bradley Sheldon, published under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. in the 1975 anthology The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction (also featuring stories by Gene Wolfe and Ursula K. Le Guin).

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