TY - ABST T1 - The Margarets Y1 - 2007 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A science fiction novel set on many different planets, with all the humans with connections to an original Margaret. Some of the planets are presented as dystopian.

PB - HarperCollins CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Fresco Y1 - 2000 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

A first contact novel that uses the form to explore problems both in the alien society and on Earth. The alien society has based its social structure on a false reading of an ancient fresco covered in centuries of accumulated dirt. Cleaning the fresco threatens to destroy the society, which is based on the idea that each person has one and only one appropriate social role. On the basis of tradition outweighing truth, the fresco is repainted to reflect the traditional version. The Earth gains a eutopia of civility.

PB - Eos CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Gibbon's Decline and Fall Y1 - 1996 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future that is becoming increasingly anti-woman. There is cooperation between the Vatican, Islamic leaders, and right-wing Christians to force women to be subservient to men. 

PB - Bantam Books CY - New York U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Beauty Y1 - 1991 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Mostly fantasy deriving from the tale of Sleeping Beauty presented as “The Journal of Beauty daughter of the Duke of Westfaire” with interpolations by “Carabosse, the fairy of clocks, keeper of the secrets of time”. Beauty travels into various futures, including an authoritarian 21st century dystopia. On the dust jacket “A Note from the Author” connects the novel to the loss of natural habitat, the loss of beauty, which she hopes is only sleeping, not dying. 

PB - Doubleday CY - New York N1 -

U.K. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1992. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1993. 

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Raising the Stones Y1 - 1990 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Novel about two planets, one, Voorstad, is a religious dystopia with slaves and women veiled and hidden. Violent. The other, Hobbs Land, is a simple agricultural society. It, and the rest of the settled planets, are matrilineal. Much fantasy in that one focus of the novel is the death and rebirth of the old gods of Hobbs Land.

PB - Doubleday CY - New York N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1991.

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Gate to Women's Country Y1 - 1988 A1 - Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] Tepper (1929-2016) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Post-catastrophe world divided into a women’s and men’s communities in which the women try to keep alive the best of the post-catastrophe world and the men are warriors. There is a mixed carnival once a year, and boys stay with their mothers until five, when they join their fathers, visiting their mothers twice a year. At fifteen the boys choose to be warriors or live with their mothers with some having been rejected by their fathers. The novel begins with two ceremonies, the first on a boy’s fifteen birthday and the second at a boy’s fifth birthday, both reflecting the pain experienced by the mothers. In fact, the women have been using birth control and selecting the men who father children to try to breed out male violence. There are a number of subplots that make it a quite complicated novel.

PB - Foundation Books/Doubleday/Bantam Doubleday Dell CY - New York SN - 0-385-24709-5 N1 -

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1989

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