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THE ONCE FERTILE EARTH OF DORA HENRY'S CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN UNDERVALUED AND OVERDEVELOPED. NOW NATURE, APPARENTLY, HAS DECIDED TO FIGHT BACK. Police officer Dora Henry is investigating the bizarre murders of three geneticists. Meanwhile, strange things are happening everywhere she turns. Weeds are becoming trees; trees are becoming forests. Overnight, a city is being transformed into a wild and verdant place. And,... (more)

Grass

by Sheri S. Tepper

What could be more commonplace than grass, or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets -- and nothing will ever be the same again . . .

Beauty (Spectra Special Editions)

by Sheri S. Tepper

With the critically acclaimed novels The Gate To Women's Country, Raising The Stones , and the Hugo-nominated Grass , Sheri Tepper has established herself as one of the major science fiction writers of out Time. In Beauty , she broadens her territory even further, with a novel that evokes all the richness of fairy tale and fable. Drawing on the wellspring of tales such as "Sleeping Beauty," Beauty is... (more)

The Gate to Women's Country

by Sheri S. Tepper

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 Country. Here, in a desperate effort to prevent another world war, the women have segregated most men into closed military garrisons and have taken on themselves every... (more)

Shadow's End

by Sheri S. Tepper

Lutha Talstaff is sent to the remote, unpopulated planet Dinadh with her young son and her lover, and soon realizes they are part of a cosmic pattern that will alter their understanding of life, love, good, and evil. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

The Visitor

by Sheri S. Tepper

The "magic" that once was America died horribly along with most of the Earth's inhabitants when an asteroid crashed into the planet sometime during the twenty-first century. Hundreds of years have passed, and all that remains of the time before are fragmented memories distorted by superstition -- as a tragically reduced populace suffers greatly under the tyranny of a repressive ruling order. But destiny has chosen... (more)

AFTER LONG SILENCE (Spectra Series)

by Sheri S. Tepper

On the planet Jubal, human colonization has been restricted by massive crystalline ""presences"" which may or may not be sentient, but in order to protect them from destruction, they must be convinced to break their long silence. Reissue. PW.

Singer from the Sea

by Sheri S. Tepper

A good and proper aristocrat on the isolated, seemingly backward planet of Haven, Genevieve has been carefully instructed in the Covenants -- the ancient, inflexible laws governing the women of her class. She knows what is expected of her: marriage in her mid-twenties to a groom of her father's choosing, childbirth at age thirty. And then soon afterwards -- as has been the lot of so many noblewomen before her --... (more)

Raising the Stones (Gollancz SF)

by Sheri S. Tepper

When the human settlers arrived on Hobbs Land, the native intelligent specvies, the Owlbrit, were already almost extinct. Before the last one died, a few years later, the humans had learned a little of their language, their ideas and theirb religion. It seemed the natural thing for the settlers to maintain the last Owlbrit temple, with the strange statue that was its God. When when that God died - disintegrating... (more)

Plague of Angels

by Sheri S. Tepper

Atop a twisting, canyon-climbing road, a witch lurks in a fortress built strong to keep out dragons and ogres. In another part of the countryside, a young orphan is maturing into a beautiful woman in the enchanted village that is her home. Somewhere nearby, a young man is seeking adventure after running away from his family's small farm. Suddenly a strange and terrible prophecy sets off a chain of events... (more)

The Companions

by Sheri S. Tepper

Three planets in deep space were named by their human discoverers to reflect their environments: lush and foreboding Jungle, which swallowed up an exploratory team; Stone, phenomenally rich in rare ore; and Moss, the most enigmatic -- and dangerous -- of the trio. Joining her half-brother Paul, the famed linguist, on a two-person scientific expedition, Jewel Delis has come to Moss to observe the phenomenon of... (more)

True Game

The True Game

Includes the Complete Trilogy: King's Blood Four, Necromancer Nine, and Wizard's Eleven

by Sheri S. Tepper

Sheri S. Tepper, author of the New York Times Notable Book Grass , has helped redefine speculative fiction. Award winner, national bestseller, and one of the genre's most respected and acclaimed talents, she has transcended the boundaries of science fiction and fantasy with her widespread success. Available for the first time in one volume, this is the long out-of-print trilogy that launched her remarkable... (more)

Jinian Star-Eye

by Sheri S. Tepper

Dervish Daughter: Jinian #2 (Jinian)

by Sheri S. Tepper

The Search of Mavin Manyshaped

by Sheri S. Tepper

The Song of Mavin Manyshaped

by Sheri S. Tepper

The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped (Mavin Manyshaped, Book 2)Sheri S. Tepper

The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped (Mavin Manyshaped, Book 2)

by Sheri S. Tepper

Jinian Footseer

by Sheri S. Tepper

Strange Dreams

A collection of twenty-seven short works of fantasy features the work of Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Orson Scott Card, Greg Bear, Theodore Sturgeon, Jorge Luis Borges, and others.

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The Family Tree

by Sheri S. Tepper

Grass

by Sheri S. Tepper

Beauty (Spectra Special Editions)

by Sheri S. Tepper

The Gate to Women's Country

by Sheri S. Tepper

Shadow's End

by Sheri S. Tepper

The Visitor

by Sheri S. Tepper

AFTER LONG SILENCE (Spectra Series)

by Sheri S. Tepper

Singer from the Sea

by Sheri S. Tepper

Raising the Stones (Gollancz SF)

by Sheri S. Tepper

Plague of Angels

by Sheri S. Tepper

The Companions

by Sheri S. Tepper

The True Game

Includes the Complete Trilogy: King's Blood Four, Necromancer Nine, and Wizard's Eleven

by Sheri S. Tepper

Jinian Star-Eye

by Sheri S. Tepper

Dervish Daughter: Jinian #2 (Jinian)

by Sheri S. Tepper

The Search of Mavin Manyshaped

by Sheri S. Tepper

The Song of Mavin Manyshaped

by Sheri S. Tepper

The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped (Mavin Manyshaped, Book 2)

by Sheri S. Tepper

Jinian Footseer

by Sheri S. Tepper

Strange Dreams