Sheri S. Tepper, Author Eos $23 (464p) ISBN 978-0-380-97479-5
Ambitiously choreographed and executed without a misstep, Tepper's complex new novel follows her acclaimed The Family Tree into a profound ecological and sociological commentary on human individuality. Originally settled by now-vanished immigrants...
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Sheri S. Tepper. Harper Voyager, $32 (512p) ISBN 978-0-06-230458-2
The waters are rising, and soon the world will be covered in boundless sea. Abasio and Xulai, previously seen in A Plague of Angels and The Waters Rising, wander the slowly drowning land, seeking out those worthy for transformation and preservation.
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Sheri S. Tepper, Author Spectra Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-10054-9
Tepper (Shadow's End) ) can be characterized as a quirkily feminist writer whose novels often question whether humanity might be better off with a smaller, more docile male population. This theme, combined with the author's ambivalence about...
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Sheri S. Tepper, Author Spectra Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09513-5
Tepper ( Sideshow ) cleverly adopts elements of both fantasy and science fiction in this portrait of a world on the verge of chaos. Looking to space for a better world, most of Artemesia's inhabitants have deserted their land for the stars, leaving...
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Sheri S. Tepper, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (453p) ISBN 978-0-385-41510-1
Sure to enhance Tepper's growing reputation, this imaginative novel is set in man's distant future among a number of human cultures inhabiting a distant solar system. On the recently colonized agricultural world of Hobbs Land, the aborigines and...
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Sheri S. Tepper, Author Spectra Books $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08130-5
Loosely related to her earlier books Grass and Raising the Stones, Tepper's newest big novel questions the desirability of further evolution. A sentient fungus has infested most of the galaxy, reworking the life forms it inhabits to enhance their...
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Sheri S. Tepper, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (426p) ISBN 978-0-385-26012-1
Generations in the future, when humanity has spread to other planets and Earth is ruled by Sanctity, a dour, coercive religion that looks to resurrection of the body by storing cell samples of its communicants, a plague is threatening to wipe out...
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Sheri S. Tepper, Author Tor Books $14.95 (248p) ISBN 978-0-312-93006-6
We enter Tepper's fantasy world by way of a central river whose atmosphere suggests a combination of Mark Twain and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Boatman Thrasne first sees a woman turned to wood and then watches the statue give birth to a ""slow baby''...
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Sheri S. Tepper, Author Eos $24 (416p) ISBN 978-0-380-97879-3
HSo what do women really, really want? Elementary, Dr. Freud, according to Tepper's enchantingly sly feminist tale of Earthlings' first contact with alien starfarers: nothing that ""virile, arbitrary, egocentric, and often belligerent"" human males...
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Sheri S. Tepper, Author Eos $24 (426p) ISBN 978-0-380-97480-1
On a planet covered almost entirely by oceans, two small countries lie side by side. The societies of both are carefully constructed around a single, deadly secret that only old men share. Those who don't know the secret can't imagine how deeply it...
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Sheri S. Tepper, Author . Eos $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-380-97905-9
Known for her thoughtful and sensitive exploration of such subjects as religion, politics and familial relationships, Tepper (The Fresco) here weaves two stories into an intriguing, and frequently chilling, vision of the future. After the mysterious
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Sheri S. Tepper, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (377p) ISBN 978-0-380-97478-8
When police officer Dora Henry talks to the trees, they listen. They also provide her with fruit out of season and guard her bicycle. Why they do these things, she's not sure, but she doesn't have time to worry about it: three geneticists have been...
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Sheri S. Tepper, Author Doubleday Books $20 (412p) ISBN 978-0-385-41939-0
The latest from the talented Tepper ( The Gate to Women's Country ) is many things: a fantasy of manners, a dystopian science fiction tale, a time-travel story and an eco-morality play. Still more impressive is the evolution of the narrator and...
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Sheri S. Tepper, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-385-24709-2
Tepper's finest novel to date is set in a post-holocaust feminist dystopia that offers only two political alternatives: a repressive polygamist sect that is slowly self-destructing through inbreeding and the matriarchal dictatorship called Women's...
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Sheri S. Tepper, Author Orb Books $23.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-312-89022-3
This volume unites two futuristic chronicles, Northshore and Southshore , by the author of A Plague of Angels . (July)
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Sheri S. Tepper, Eos, $26.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-06-195887-8
The Earth of this futuristic fable is still scarred by the "Big Kill," the disastrous crescendo of our civilization that all but obliterated terrestrial life. Now a new threat has appeared in the form of rising sea levels, a process that appears...
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Sheri S. Tepper, Author . Eos $26.95 (508p) ISBN 978-0-06-117065-2
Full of fascinating characters and beautifully detailed settings, Tepper's complex and multifaceted far-future SF novel follows the many selves of Mars colonist Margaret Bain on a mission to save the human race from annihilation. Long ago,...
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Sheri S. Tepper, Author . Eos $25.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-06-053821-7
Fans will hail Hugo nominee Tepper's latest (after 2002's The Visitor), with its compelling story of an ordinary woman flung into extraordinary circumstances, but interesting ideas left undeveloped, awkward transitions from first to third...
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B. J. Oliphant, Author, Sheri S. Tepper, Author Fawcett Books $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-14718-4
The fourth Shirley McClintock mystery has an appealingly picturesque New Mexico setting, but the surroundings do not often come into play. The plot centers on an accident in which April, the young companion of McClintock's foster daughter, is shot...
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