Most Popular Books by Sheri S. Tepper

From The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal sample introduction to Sheri S. Tepper, the author of several resoundingly acclaimed novels, including Beauty, which was voted Best Fantasy Novel of the Year by readers of Locus. She is one of the few writers to have titles in both the SF and Fantasy Masterworks lists. This omnibus contains three of her acclaimed SF novels: After Long Silence, Shadow''s End and Six Moon Dance.

In the savage and magical world of the River, the pace of life is dictated by the ebb and flow of great tides - and by the power of a fearsome religion. Yet dangerous currents gather force beneath the placid surface. Together, Pamra Don and Thrasne the Boatman seek to uncover the terrible truth about the river and its awesome strength. But in the world of the Awakeners, the truth can kill you¿ Northshore is the first half of Sheri S. Tepper''s acclaimed Awakeners sequence.

When Marianne''s parents died, leaving control of their fortune to her feared older brother, she struggled to make her way as a student in America - and her old home began to seem as unreal as a fairy tale, her childhood there as distant as a dream . . . Until the Magus came to claim her, and the Black Madame to destroy her, and the Manticore to hunt her down through the streets of another world - for there is magic in Marianne''s blood, and magic in her soul. And in a battle fought in an everchanging world of warped time and wicked magic, it is the souls of Marianne and her family that are the ultimate prizes. Marianne, the Magus and the Manticore is the first volume of Sheri S. Tepper''s acclaimed Marianne Trilogy.

For Mavin, coming of age as a shape-shifter is both exhilarating and terrifying. Recklessly headstrong, she is to become notorious in the lands of the True Game. With her brother, she leaves their home - a place of slavery and fear - only to have the boy''s powers of beguilement lead them into danger. Rescued by the Wizard Himaggery, the shape-shift and man of magic make a vow. When twenty years have come and gone, they will meet again. But Himmagery has vanished, leaving only a letter of love behind for Mavin to find. If he were dead, she would know it: sorcerers could trace the scent of his trail, necromancers raise his bones from the dust. But he has disappeared - beyond the power of wizardy. And so the search of Mavin Manyshaped begins. This is the final volume of Sheri S. Tepper''s acclaimed The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped

Recounts the adventures of Jaer and his six companions in a magical land of sphinxes, griffins, wizards, and unicorns

A novel composed of two plots, one ecological, the other apocalyptic. In the first, a town is invaded by intelligent trees and a woman discovers she can talk to them. In the second, a group of people seek to prevent an end-of-the-world prophecy from coming true. By the author of Gibbon''s Decline and Fall.

Marianne plans to use the magic she learned from the magus to go back in time and save her parents from death, but she becomes trapped in a time warp, face-to-face with evil magic

Badger Ettison is forced by an ancient demon, which has escaped its prison, to choose between saving his wife or his son

This sequel to Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods finds Marianne honoring a most unusual deathbed request from her great aunt. It seems a matchbox needs to be returned to its owner, the mysterious Cattermune. But how will she find this elusive being?

Un grand cataclysme a autrefois dévasté la Terre. Seuls subsistent, témoins de ce temps, des souvenirs approximatifs de la science et d''une vie que colorent à présent le mythe et la superstition. Dismé Latimer vit dans la cité de Bastion, sous le joug du Régime, un ordre répressif qui inflige de cruelles punitions à la population. La famille de Dismé a disparu : de mystérieuses circonstances ont fait de la jeune fille une orpheline, la laissant, fragile et inexpérimentée, à la merci du Régime, d''une demi-sœur abusive... et d''un livre. Un livre sacré, troublant, écrit par une ancêtre de Dismé, dont les révélations poussent la jeune femme timide à braver les périls. Mais le mal veille. Et loin dans les profondeurs de la terre, une bête maléfique s''éveille après des siècles de sommeil...