Byte Beautiful: Eight Science Fiction Stories
short story collection by Alice Bradley Sheldon
Byte Beautiful: Eight Science Fiction Stories is a 1985 science fiction short story collection by American writer James Tiptree, Jr.
All the stories, with the exception of "Excursion Fare", had previously appeared in earlier short story collections by Tiptree.
Contents
"With Delicate Mad Hands" (novella) (Out of the Everywhere and Other Extraordinary Visions, 1981.)
"Beam Us Home" (Galaxy Science Fiction, April, 1969.)
"Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" (The Alien Condition, 1973.)
"The Man Who Walked Home" (Amazing Stories, May, 1972.)
"Your Faces, O My Sisters!
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