Beauty sheri s tepper

American science fiction, horror and mystery novelist (–)

Sheri Stewart Tepper (July 16, – October 22, )^[2] was an American writer of science fiction, horror and mystery novels.

She is primarily known for her feminist science fiction, which explored themes of sociology, gender and equality, as well as theology and ecology. Often referred to as an eco-feminist of science fiction literature, Tepper personally preferred the label eco-humanist.^[3] Though the majority of her works operate in a world of fantastical imagery and metaphor, at the heart of her writing is real-world injustice and pain.

She employed several pen names during her lifetime, including A.

Sheri s tepper autobiography book

J. Orde, E. E. Horlak, and B. J. Oliphant.^[4]

Early life and education

She was born Shirley Stewart Douglas near Littleton, Colorado.^[5] As a child, she read science fiction and fantasy by A. Merritt and C.S. Lewis, as well as Frank Baum's 'Oz' books, William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land and Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright.

She later commented, "These were the books I went back to again and again."^[5]

Career

Tepper recalled that she "spent ten yearsworking all kinds of different jobs" as a single mother of two.^[5] This included time working as a clerical assistant for the international relief agency, CARE.^[5] From to , she worked for Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, eventually as its executive director.^[5]

She wrote poetry and children's stories as Sheri S.

Eberhart, then took a break from writing. By the mids, she was publishing science fiction novels, including The Revenants (), and the books of the True Game series, including King's Blood Four (), Necromancer Nine (), and Wizard's Eleven (). Other related works followed, including her ecofeminist novels The Gate to Women's Country () and Grass (), which were part of the Arbai Trilogy.

Later novels in the s and s included Beauty (), which won a Locus Award; Shadow's End (); The Family Tree (); Six Moon Dance (); Singer from the Sea (); The Visitor (); The Companions (); and The Margarets ().

As of , she operated a guest ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico.^[5] That year saw her first and possibly only appearance at a science fiction convention, when she was Guest of Honor at the 25th WisCon, the feminist science fiction convention held annually in Madison, Wisconsin.^[6]

In November , she received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.^[7][8]

Personal life

She married at 20, and divorced in her late twenties.^[4] She married Gene Tepper in the late s.^[4]

She died on October 22, ^[4] at age ^[2]

Works

Novels

Series

• The True Game (a trilogy of trilogies)
  • The Peter series was the first published.
    Sheris tepper bibliography Omit cross-reference entries. She then fell silent as an author, beginning to write again only once she was in her fifties, producing sf and fantasy as Tepper, a horror novel as by E E Horlak, and non-fantastic detective novels not listed below as by B J Oliphant and A J Orde. Her first-written novel, a long, complex work of sf, eventually appeared as The Revenants Her first-published novel was King's Blood Four , which begins the long and very interesting True Game series see Chess , continuing with Necromancer Nine and Wizard's Eleven In terms of internal chronology, the middle trilogy as noted above precedes the first; the third runs partly parallel with the first and continues beyond.

    The Mavin series takes place earlier. The Jinian series takes place during and after the same time period as the Peter series, often giving a different perspective on the same events.

    • This series has a crossover with the Plague of Angels series.
  • The Books of the True Game: Peter
    • King's Blood Four (Ace Books, ) (first novel)
    • Necromancer Nine (Ace Books, )
    • Wizard's Eleven (Ace Books, )
      • The True Game (omnibus edition) ()
  • The Books of the True Game: Mavin Manyshaped
    • The Song of Mavin Manyshaped (Ace Books, )
    • The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped (Ace Books, )
    • The Search of Mavin Manyshaped (Ace Books, )
      • The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped (omnibus edition) ()
  • The Books of the True Game: Jinian
    • Jinian Footseer (Tor Books, )
    • Dervish Daughter (Tor Books, )
    • Jinian Star-Eye (Tor Books, )
      • The End of the Game (omnibus edition)
• The Marianne Trilogy
  • Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore (Ace Books, )
  • Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (Ace Books, )
  • Marianne, the Matchbox, and the Malachite Mouse (Ace Books, )
    • The Marianne Trilogy (omnibus edition)
• Ettison Duo, featuring Badger Ettison
• The Awakeners:
  • Northshore (Tor Books, )
  • Southshore (Tor Books, )
    • The Awakeners (omnibus edition, A later omnibus edition erroneously claims to be first)
• Plague of Angels:
• The Arbai Trilogy

Non-series

• The Revenants (Berkley Publishing, )
• After Long Silence () (UK: The Enigma Score, )
• The Gate to Women's Country ()
• Beauty (Doubleday, ; revised UK edition is author's preferred text) – Winner, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, ^[12]
• Shadow's End ()
• Gibbon's Decline & Fall () – Arthur C.

  Clarke Award nominee, ^[13]

• The Family Tree () – Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, ^[14]
• Six Moon Dance ()
• Singer from the Sea ()
• The Fresco () – John W. Campbell Memorial Award nominee, ^[15]
• The Visitor () – John W.

  Campbell Memorial Award nominee, ^[16]

• The Companions () – John W. Campbell Memorial Award nominee, ^[17]
• The Margarets (released June 1, by Eos) – John W. Campbell Memorial Award nominee, ;^[18]Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee, ^[19]

Short works

• "The Gardener" (novella) in Night Visions 6.

  Released as The Bone Yard () in mass market. Collaboration with F. Paul Wilson and Ray Garton. World Fantasy Award—Long Fiction finalist ()

• "Someone Like You" in The Further Adventures of the Joker (ed. Martin Greenberg) ()
• The "Crazy" Carol Stories
  • "The Gazebo" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October
  • "Raccoon Music" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February
  • "The Gourmet" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November

Poetry

Essays/articles

Educational pamphlets for Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood:

• The People Know ()
• The Perils of Puberty ()
• The Problem with Puberty ()
• This Is You ()
• So Your Happily Ever After Isn't ()
• The Great Orgasm Robbery ()
• So You Don't Want to Be a Sex Object ()

Pseudonymous works

• as E.

  E. Horlak (horror):

  • Still Life (Bantam, /)
• as B. J. Oliphant (mystery):
  • Shirley McClintock Mysteries, featuring a Colorado rancher and former Washington, DC "advisor":
    • Dead in the Scrub ()
    • The Unexpected Corpse ()
    • Deservedly Dead ()
    • Death and the Delinquent ()
    • Death Served Up Cold ()
    • A Ceremonial Death ()
    • Here's to the Newly Dead ()
• as A.

  J. Orde (mystery):

  • The Jason Lynx Mysteries, featuring a Colorado antiques dealer and his significant other, a female cop:
    • A Little Neighborhood Murder: A Jason Lynx Novel ()
    • Death and the Dogwalker: A Jason Lynx Novel ()
    • Death for Old Time's Sake: A Jason Lynx Novel ()
    • Looking for the Aardvark () (also published in paperback as Dead on Sunday, )
    • A Long Time Dead (Fawcett, )
    • A Death of Innocents: A Jason Lynx Novel (, )

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