Raising the Stones
Title | Raising the Stones |
Year for Search | 1990 |
Authors | Tepper, Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart](1929-2016) |
Date Published | 1990 |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Place Published | New York |
Keywords | Female author, US author |
Annotation | 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. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1991. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | Female author (1929-2016). |
Full Text | 1990 Tepper, Sheri [Shirley] S[tewart] (1929-2016). Raising the Stones. New York: Doubleday. Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1991. PSt 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. Female author. |