Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever contains the following stories:

1. "Introduction" by John Clute
2. The Green Hills of Earth
   • "The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" (1969)[1]
   • "The Screwfly Solution" (1977)[2]
3. The Boundaries of Humanity
   • "And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill's Side" (1972)[3]
   • "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" (1973)[1]
   • "The Man Who Walked Home" (1972)[3]
   • "And I Have Come Upon This Place By Lost Ways" (1972)[1]
4. Male and Female
   • "The Women Men Don't See" (1973)[1]
   • "Your Faces, O My Sisters! Your Faces Filled of Light!" (1976)[2]
   • "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" (1976)[4]
5. Star Songs
   • "With Delicate Mad Hands" (1981)[2]
   • "A Momentary Taste of Being" (1975)[4]
   • "We Who Stole the Dream" (1978)[2]
6. Life and Death
   • "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" (1974)[4]
   • "Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death" (1973)[1]
   • "On the Last Afternoon" (1972)[1]
   • "She Waits for All Men Born" (1976)[4]
   • "Slow Music" (1980)[2]
7. Epilogue: And Man Abides...
   • "And So On, and So On" (1971)[4]

Acoustic musician James Blackshaw adopted Her Smoke Rose Up Forever as the title of his 2012 studio album, which was inspired "in essence by the passionate work of sci-fi scribe James Tiptree, Jr."[5] The music consists mainly of Blackshaw's signature solo guitar picking and piano, with backing vocals by Genevieve Beulieau on the third track. The album was generally well received by fans and critics, with very positive reviews on Brainwashed[6] and Pitchfork,[7] and mostly positive reviews on Metacritic.[8] By August 2020, the eponymous track "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" had garnered over 5 million listens on the Spotify music service, making it Blackshaw's most popular track on the service at that time, with "Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death" coming in next at over 1 million listens, according to the Spotify app.[9] Each of the six tracks on the album is named for a story or novel by Tiptree, including four from the eponymous collection:

1. "Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death" (1973 story)
2. "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever" (1974 story)
3. "And I Have Come Upon This Place By Lost Ways" (1972 story)
4. "A Momentary Taste Of Being" (1975 novella, first published in the anthology The New Atlantis)
5. "We Who Stole The Dream" (1978 story)
6. "The Snows Are Melted, The Snows Are Gone" (1973 story, first published in the author's collection Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home)

In his review, Pitchfork contributor Matthew Murphey wrote:[7]

As has been his habit, Blackshaw again draws inspiration from the literary world. The album title and all of the song titles here are borrowed from those of short stories written by Alice B. Sheldon, who published sci-fi and speculative fiction under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr. For most of her writing career, Sheldon kept her gender a secret, and many of her stories concern issues of identity and alienation. Her style could be poetic and elliptical, and her themes abstract enough for readers to project multiple interpretations onto her stories. In other words, it is not hard to see how Blackshaw, a composer whose pieces are still predominantly instrumental and open to broad emotive interpretation, might be drawn to Sheldon's work and see parallels with his own.