| Gibbon's Decline and
Fall |
| A group of six women make a pact
when they were students together in the heady sixties, vowing that each of
them would find a place to stand where she could be woman as woman was
meant to be, and thereafter she would never decline or fall from that
place. |
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Fast forward to the year 2000: a ruthless
politician is amassing a terrifying, fanatical power base; the suicide
rate has gone through the roof . . .
and the global birthrate has suddenly
plummeted to near zero. Something evil is threatening the world. Of the
six extraordinary women forming the Decline and Fall Club, five remain.
The sixth, Sophy, disappeared three years
before, her dazzling, unearthly beauty undiminished — and her early life
still as mysterious as her apparent end. Her friends come to see that
unlocking the secret to Sophy’s disappearance will be the key to the
survival of humanity |
| With each new novel, Sheri Tepper’s
devoted following has grown as more and more readers discover this
remarkable talent. Her richly imagined future worlds are filled with
unforgettable characters, exotic backdrops and epic adventures. In
Gibbon’s Decline and Fall she outdoes herself, proving yet again
why Analog dubs her ‘one of the greats of literature’.
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| The True
Game |
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‘Tepper’s stories are.. .the kind that wrap
you in their embrace, that take over your life, that make the world
disappear."—The Village Voice
"Moves with all the precision of a chess game
with fate!" —ROGER ZELAZNY
"Tepper takes the traditional icons of fantasy,
restores their resonance, and makes them her own." —Minneapolis Star
Tribune |
| "Tepper is as successful in bringing
to life intelligent aliens as she is in creating believable human
characters." —New York Times Book Review |
| "Tepper’s talent for creating
evocative alien landscapes reinforces the depth of her insights into the
complexities of human society and the human heart ."—Library
Journal
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| Beauty |
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On her sixteenth birthday, Beauty, daughter of
the Duke of Westfaire, sidesteps the sleeping curse placed upon her by her
wicked aunt - only to be kidnapped by voyeurs from another time and place,
far from the picturesque castle in 14th century England. She is taken to a
world of the future, a savage society where, even among the teeming
billions, she is utterly alone. Here her adventures begin. As she travels
magically through time to visit places both imaginary and real she
eventually comes to understand her special place in humanity's
destiny. |
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Gate to Women's
Country |
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Since the flames died three hundred years ago,
human civilization has evolved into a dual society: Women’s Country, where
walled towns enclose what’s left of past civilization, nurtured by women
and a few nonviolent men: and the adjacent garrisons where warrior men
live—the lost brothers, sons, and lovers of those in Women’s Country. Two
societies. Two competing dreams. Two ways of life, kept apart by walls
stronger than stone. And yet there is a gate between them.... Tepper not
only keeps us reading... she provokes a new look at the old issues.’ —The
Washington Post |
| ‘Tepper's cast of both ordinary and
extraordinary people play out a powerful drama whose significance goes
beyond sex to deal with the toughest problem of all. the challenge of
surmounting humanity’s most dangerous flaws so we can survive—despite
ourselves.’—Locus |
| Lively, thought-provoking., the plot
is ingenious, packing a wallop of a surprise . Tepper knows how to write a
well-made, on-moving story with strong characters .... She takes the
mental risks that are the lifeblood of science fiction and all imaginative
narrative." —Ursula K. LeGuin. Los Angeles Times
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| Sideshow |
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Barbaric customs and bizarre human cults are
preserved on the planet Elsewhere. The rest of the universe has been taken
over by the Hobbs Land Gods, which means that everyone alive, except the
people on Elsewhere, lives in perfect harmony with nature and
eachother.
But Elsewhere is ruled by computer encrypted
professors who have been dead for a thousand years. The professors were
dedicated to maintaining human diversity. Their ancient analogs are
dedicated to something infinitely more sinister. |
| The time has come to consider
whether enslavement by the Hobbs Land Gods is not preferable to the
depravity being cultivated on Elsewhere. The time has come to ask the Big
Question, What is the Destiny of Man? And answer it.
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| The Family
Tree |
| Dora Henry is an ordinary woman
living in an extraordinary time. Recently separated from an odd and
distant husband, Dora looks back wistfully to when she was a little girl,
to the times when the world was a simpler, greener place. But the
once-fertile Earth of Dora’s childhood has been overdeveloped. Now Nature,
apparently, has decided to fight back. |
| As a police officer, Dora must
investigate the bizarre, seemingly unrelated murders of three geneticists.
In the course of her inquiry, however, it becomes clear that the
scientists were killed by the same person, for reasons that are
frustratingly obscure. Meanwhile, strange things are happening everywhere
Dora turns: weeds are becoming trees, trees becoming forests, a city is
transformed almost overnight into a wild and verdant place inhospitable to
what humankind has become. |
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Within days, Dora’s hometown has come to a
veritable standstill as the thoroughfares are choked by foliage, and its
citizens are forced to employ bygone means of transport and
communication—walking and talking. But stranger still, Dora discovers that
she herself can somehow communicate with the rampaging flora—and
is, therefore, perhaps the only person presently living who holds the key
to averting an unthinkable catastrophe to human life. As Dora tracks the
elusive murderer, the mystery of the trees begins to unravel as well. For
the two seemingly disparate events are intertwined, much like the branches
of an oak. And, as Dora gets closer to the truth, she comes to realise
that the answer she seeks today may lie in the future—a future which is
much closer than anyone dares think. |
| An inspired, thought-provoking novel
of infinite surprise, unrestrained brilliance and mind-blowing
imagination, The Family Tree is a tour de force from Sheri S.
Tepper, proving once again why she is one of the most highly praised and
beloved storytellers writing today.
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