Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016)
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A propos de l'auteur
Sheri S. Tepper was born Shirley Stewart Douglas on July 16, 1929 near Littleton, Colorado. She held numerous jobs before becoming a full-time author including working at Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood from 1962 to 1986, eventually becoming the executive director. In the early 1960s, she wrote afficher plus poems and children's stories under the name Sheri S. Eberhart. In the 1980s, she became a feminist and science fiction/fantasy writer. Her books include The Revenants, After Long Silence, The Gate to Women's Country, Grass, Shadow's End, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, The Family Tree, Six Moon Dance, Singer from the Sea, The Fresco, The Visitor, The Companions, and The Margarets. She received the Locus Award for Beauty and a World Fantasy life achievement award in 2015. She also wrote horror under the name E. E. Horlak and mysteries under the names A. J. Orde and B. J. Oliphant. She died on October 22, 2016 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Sheri S. Tepper
You've changed the combination 1 exemplaire
True Game Saga - 3 Trilogies 1 exemplaire
Raccoon Music {short story} 1 exemplaire
The Flight of Denartesestel Radichan 1 exemplaire
The Gardener 1 exemplaire
Someone Like You 1 exemplaire
Choices 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Gateways: A Feast of Great New Science Fiction Honoring Grand Master Frederik Pohl (2010) — Contributeur — 95 exemplaires
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1990, Vol. 79, No. 4 (1990) — Contributeur — 18 exemplaires
Voyager: A Science Fiction and Fantasy eBook Sampler From Harper Voyager US (2014) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Tepper, Sheri Stewart
- Autres noms
- Oliphant, B. J.
Horlak, E. E.
Orde, A. J.
Eberhart, Sheri S.
Stewart, Sheri J. (birth)
Tepper, S. - Date de naissance
- 1929-07-16
- Date de décès
- 2016-10-22
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Littleton, Colorado, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Denver, Colorado, USA
Castle Rock, Colorado, USA - Professions
- executive director (Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood)
novelist - Prix et distinctions
- John W. Campbell Award Nomination (1984)
Best Fantasy Novel - Locus Magazine (1991)
Hugo Award Nomination (1990)
NYT Notable Book citation (1990)
Edgar Award Nomination (1991)
World Fantasy Award (Lifetime Achievement, 2015) - Agent
- Howard Morhaim
- Courte biographie
- Sheri S. Tepper, née Shirley Stewart Douglas, also wrote under several pseudonyms, including A. J. Orde, E. E. Horlak, and B. J. Oliphant. Her early work was published under the name Sheri S. Eberhart. She was born near Littleton, in rural Colorado, and loved reading science fiction books as a child. For most of her career (1962-1986), she worked for and guided the growth of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, where she eventually was named Executive Director. She was married to Eugene X. Tepper and had two children. After her retirement, she and her husband moved to a ranch near Castle Rock, Colorado, and later to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she launched her second career as a writer. Over the next three decades, she became a prolific author of acclaimed science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery novels; she was particularly known as a feminist science fiction writer, often with an eco-feminist slant.
Membres
Discussions
Sheri S. Tepper 1929-2016 à Science Fiction Fans (Novembre 2016)
2 Scifi books: alien horses and human pets à Name that Book (Décembre 2011)
Critiques
This book is a wonderful example of how sci-fi can make that which is truely alien, lovable, or hate able and definitely relatable. Some of the humans are the most alien of all.
The world building is first class, and the backdrop is part of the plot without being the whole book. The world of Grass itself is real, believable, wonderful and awful.
There's a political and religious theme that also seems plausible, but it's laid on very heavy handed. it's a clear theme the characters revolve around throughout the book.
The central character is complex, believable and demands your attention throughout. A few of the others grow and change and really make you want them to succeed.
There are quite a few characters though. Some just don't change. Some are just a plot point. Some don't seem to have a point at all. Without spoiling anything, it's not a "they all lived happily every after" story.
A close re-reading and more familiarity with Catholicism would probably help me pick up some facets I'm sure I missed, and maybe tip the rating up a bit, but even without that it's very much worth reading, and will make you question your own choices if you ended up in similar situations.… (plus d'informations)
The world building is first class, and the backdrop is part of the plot without being the whole book. The world of Grass itself is real, believable, wonderful and awful.
There's a political and religious theme that also seems plausible, but it's laid on very heavy handed. it's a clear theme the characters revolve around throughout the book.
The central character is complex, believable and demands your attention throughout. A few of the others grow and change and really make you want them to succeed.
There are quite a few characters though. Some just don't change. Some are just a plot point. Some don't seem to have a point at all. Without spoiling anything, it's not a "they all lived happily every after" story.
A close re-reading and more familiarity with Catholicism would probably help me pick up some facets I'm sure I missed, and maybe tip the rating up a bit, but even without that it's very much worth reading, and will make you question your own choices if you ended up in similar situations.… (plus d'informations)
Somehow I missed this when it came out in 2000. I loved that it looked at so many problems that are unfortunately still huge issues. I can't help but think Tepper was so underappreciated because of her feminism and care about the environment. Looking her up, I was shocked to see had won no Hugo or Nebula awards but she was writing when even more of a majority of folks voting for the awards were male.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 69
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 24,151
- Popularité
- #867
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 413
- ISBN
- 279
- Langues
- 11
- Favoris
- 138
I read a lot of Tepper back in the late 1990s, and I’m not entirely sure why I stopped, because her books were generally good. She’s notable for starting her career late - she was in her fifties when her first novel was published. So never give up. The Song of Mavin Manyshaped is an early work, her fourth or fifth book, I think, and the first of a trilogy set on a fantasy world populated by numerous different races, which later proves to be a trilogy of trilogies and, in fact, science fiction of a sort. Mavin is a Shifter, although she has yet to come into her Talent. She’s one of only two female Shifters in Panderbat, and it’s clearly implied the women are there to provide sexual services for the male Shifters, and to bear children too, of course. But Mavin is not yet old enough, and her older sister is apparently infertile. After developing her Shifting ability in secret, Mavin escapes Panderbat and flees to a friendly relative’s castle. En route, her young brother - who develops a different Talent - is taken ill with “ghoul plague”, so Mavin must help the shadowpeople and defeat the ghoul king in order to cure her brother and set everything to rights. There’s numerous references to games and such, as if the world itself were a gameboard, which makes everything seem especially unreal - and reminds me a little of Jack Chalker’s Wellworld series, and… I’m sure there’s another one but it escapes me. Not The Player of Games by Iain M Banks. Vance, probably. Anyway. It’s all very light and inconsequential, but the feminist ire burns through, and I’m surprised these early works aren’t as well known as Tepper’s later novels. An oeuvre definitely worth exploring.… (plus d'informations)