Tales of the Quintana Roo
Tales of the Quintana Roo is a collection of fantasy stories by American author Alice Sheldon, writing as James Tiptree Jr. It was released in 1986 and was the author's first book published by Arkham House. It was published in an edition of 3,673 copies. The stories originally appeared in "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine" and "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" and are set in the easternmost shore of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. In addition to winning the world fantasy award for best collection in 1987, each of the stories was  nominated or won genre awards, and "What Came Ashore at Lirios" was included in the "Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories". Contents. "Tales of the Quintana Roo" contains the following stories: Awards. The collection and the stories contained therein were nominated for a number of genre awards: