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	SCIFI.COM Chat Transcript: Sheri Tepper: April 9 2002
		Sheri: I made a list of things out of the paper that were interesting (though horrible, some of them) and created a story that included all of them.
		Sheri: When I was in school, it was still considered unimportant for females to study science or moth, because we wouldn't need it to be secretaries, nurses, or teachers, which were the only acceptable careers besides wife and mother.
		Sheri: Whoever you are who has collected every one of my books and stories, blessings on you, and may your heaven be a vast, vast library.
	www.scifi.com /transcripts/2002/tepper_chat.html (1957 words)

	Sheri S. Tepper, Gibbon's Decline and Fall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tepper postulates a fascinating hypothesis here: that the imbalance between the sexes is not due to human failing entirely, but to an outside force, an Enemy who promulgates hatred and abuse in order to further his own desire to feed off of the pain of others.
		Tepper pulls no punches, describing in detail the brutal persecution of women throughout the ages, and sadly, there is so much material for her to work with.
		Finally, I have to say that while Tepper's ideas of how to win "the battle between balance and dominion" begin as a radical and slightly dismaying notion of sexlessness and cold logic, in the end her resolution is immensely satisfying.
	www.greenmanreview.com /gibbons.htm (908 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		Tepper's gifts as a storyteller are great enough to obscure her faults, one of which is a kind of incoherence.
		Tepper is too much of a natural storyteller to disappoint her readers, most of whom will find The Companions a smart, engaging and involving space opera with some serious points to make.
		Sheri S. Tepper has succeeded at the even more difficult art of making readers forgive her flaws and perhaps even to welcome them.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue336/books2.html (755 words)

	The Absolutely Weird Bookshelf Hardcover Science Fiction and Fantasy Books: T (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tepper, Sheri S. The Family Tree Avon, New York 1997 Trade paper, advanced reader copy, near F. Tepper, Sheri S. The Family Tree Avon, New York 1997 1st ed, near F in dj.
		Tepper, Sheri S. Gibbon's Decline and Fall Bantam, New York 1996 1st ed, F in dj.
		Tepper, Sheri S. Singer From the Sea Avon, New York 1999 1st ed, near F in dj.
	www.strangewords.com /weirdbooks/weirdt.html (2222 words)

	Steven Wu's Book Reviews: Grass (Sheri Tepper)
		Tepper adeptly sketches the basic outlines of the arcane society that has grown up among the human colonists of Grass, leaving enough gaps for the curious reader to begin wondering what is going on beneath the seemingly proper veil of Grass's high society.
		Tepper's presentation of those Themes is not pleasant: she can most leniently be called obvious, and most damnably be called heavy-handed.
		And by the end, the structure of Tepper's novel is clearly insufficient to support the weight she throws onto it, as Tepper attempts to tie up her careening plot line, the necessary exposition about the planet so we can understand that plotline, and her pet bundle of Important Themes.
	www.scwu.com /bookreviews/h/TepperSheriGrass.shtml (639 words)

	: RevolutionSF - The Fresco : Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tepper's work is well known for grappling with many of our society's continuing issues, including animal rights, technology and prejudice, and most notably gender issues and feminism.
		This is possibly Tepper's most heavy-handed work to date, and though occasionally one may wonder whether the political message overshadows the quality of the work, the truth is that this book stands as a strong and opinionated commentary on our society while also keeping the entertainment quality at a very high level.
		Tepper's list of complaints against the world begin to unfurl as we witness the visitors' solutions to the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians, the plight of women in Afghanistan and other oppressive countries, environmental concerns, and other social ills.
	www.revolutionsf.com /article.html?id=267 (693 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: The Companions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tepper has rung similar warning bells in previous novels, including the wonderful The Gate to Women's Country, where men and women live separately, and The Family Tree, where humanity pays a horrible price for exerting dominion over animals.
		Here, Tepper puts us into a future where the Earth is so overpopulated that the few remaining animal species are being killed off to provide more space for people.
		Tepper looks at the widely held supposition that dogs adapted to living with humanity and, in a lovely fictive twist, turns that theory on its head.
	www.bookpage.com /0309bp/fiction/companions.html (257 words)

	Feminist SFF & Utopia: Reviews: Sheri S. Tepper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tepper has been fairly successful in recent years and this novel has generated quite a bit of controversy in science fiction circles for its biological determinism and the ethical decisions made by the women who control the society.
		Feminist strains run through almost all of Tepper's work, however: strong women people her books, and in the societies she envisions, she regularly explores the role of women in patriarchal societies.
		Tepper once again does a wonderful job of bringing disparate strands together, this time in a really interesting story.
	www.feministsf.org /femsf/reviews/tepper.s.html (708 words)

	Locus Online: Sheri S. Tepper interview
		Sheri S. Tepper was born Shirley Stewart Douglas, July 16, 1929, near Littleton, Colorado.
		As Sheri S. Eberhart, she wrote some poetry and children's stories in the early '60s, including ''Lullaby, 1990'' in the December 1963 Galaxy, but devoted most of her time to her children and the job with Planned Parenthood, until the early '80s.
		Tepper did not receive much critical attention until — after retiring to become a full-time writer — she produced SF novel The Awakeners (1987, originally published as two volumes: Northshore and Southshore), The Gate to Women's Country (1988), and Grass (1989).
	www.locusmag.com /1998/Issues/09/Tepper.html (1377 words)

	Grass by Sheri S Tepper - an infinity plus review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tepper picks up on Whitman's central image, quoting one of the Biblical passages that is resonant in his poetic text as her own epigraph: 'A voice says, "Cry!" And I said, "What shall I cry?" All flesh is grass...' [Isaiah 40:6].
		Like Whitman's work, Tepper's novel is intermittently awestruck at the beauty and variety of the (wholly alien) leaves of grass that cover her planet.
		Almost all of Tepper's novels are concerned with American environments first, and environments more generally only secondarily: which is to say nothing more than that she is a great American novelist first and foremost.
	www.iplus.zetnet.co.uk /nonfiction/grass.htm (2719 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Fresco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tepper intersperses episodes of Benita's struggle to help Chiddy and Vess with entries from the journal Chiddy keeps for her, an explanation of the Pistach moral-ethical religion centered upon a sacred fresco.
		To a large extent, one of the reasons that I like to read Tepper is that she provices a certain amount of wish fulfillment for the reader (like myself) who agrees with most of her political views.
		Tepper is nearly peerless in her command of craft, and that skill is not diminished here.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/038081658X?v=glance (2859 words)

	Tepper, Sheri S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Killer meteors hurtling toward the Earth were big at the theater a few years ago, but with her latest, "The Visitor" (EOS), Sheri S. Tepper puts a new spin on the tale.
		Tepper has created a place where magic and science are almost indistinguishable from each other - and both do exist.
		Tepper has created a world of endless possibilities, a world that I wouldn't mind visiting again.
	members.aol.com /skyedrake/tepper.html (531 words)

	Raven's Reviews: Sheri S. Tepper
		Tepper is labeled as a "feminist writer", but I honestly think she just likes to play with gender roles, which is not quite the same thing, or at least doesn't carry the same connotations.
		The world of Newholme was settled by humanity on the understanding that there was no native life to be disturbed by their presence, but lately it has come to the attention of the Council of Worlds that all may not be going as well as it should.
		However, this may be in part due to the fact that I felt like Tepper was preaching to the choir, and may not be as much of a problem if you haven't encountered this sort of commentary before.
	members.fortunecity.com /arwen_e/pz/sherit.html (1085 words)

	Sheri S. Tepper: Gibbon's Decline and Fall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I imagine that staunch feminists will be able to overlook this aspect of the novel, but in their case Tepper is already preaching to the choir.
		Tepper's diatribes, although well-reasoned and obviously at the core of Tepper's own views, tend to stop the action of the novel when they appear and could, perhaps, be better integrated into the work.
		Tepper's point-of-view characters switch around, in some cases within the same conversation.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/tepper.html (374 words)

	sffworld.com - Sheri S. Tepper's Grass
		Tepper takes the women who were mostly victims when the world was destroyed, places them in power, and with all the best intentions in the world they (the women in power) behave in the exact same way as the men did.
		Cassandra's curse was not that nobody believed her about Troy falling and everybody dying, it was that it didn't matter, they couldn't change their beliefs or their behaviors without destroying who they were, and they chose to die (they chose for the whole city) rather than change.
		My Tepper-jones today is also fueled by the fact that her work inspires such discussion among us here - not just the inevitable response to emotionally-charged subject matter, but that the discussion is a response in the context of the work that birthed it says a lot for the writer.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/printthread.php?t=9755&pp=30 (2029 words)

	Sheri S Tepper: Six Moon Dance - an infinity plus review
		Sheri Tepper's work has always been intriguing, possessed of a strong narrative sense, whether the subject matter was fantasy, horror or science fiction.
		She is a born storyteller, from her early fantasy novels (the 'True Game' series), through the 'Marianne' books, and into her SF work (and beyond, in crime and mystery work published under pseudonyms).
		The story begins in a vein familiar to most readers of Tepper -- the description of a world where the gender roles are significantly different to our own, enough to point up the absurdities of our own world's practices.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/6moon.htm (441 words)

	Sheri S Tepper.
		SHERI S. Sheri Stewart Tepper was born, reared and educated in Colorado, U.S.A. She worked for many years for various non-profit organisations including the international relief organisation, CARE and Planned Parenthood, the American family planning organisation.
		She lives there with her husband, Gene and an assortment of wild and domesticated animals including a small pack of Norwegian Elkhounds to keep the coyotes at bay, a herd of Belted Galloway cattle and a family of shorthaired silver tabbies.
		Sheri S. Tepper is mother of two children; one son, a scientist with the National Laboratories at Los Alamos and one daughter, who is also a writer.
	www.sfcrowsnest.co.uk /shopbooks/stepper.htm (391 words)

	Locus Online Book Review: Gary K. Wolfe on Sheri S. Tepper
		One sometimes gets the impression that the incidents and characters in a Tepper novel are not so much plotted as herded, toward a particular rhetorical point that she's had in mind all along, and that she feels must be approached from a variety of angles.
		This shaggy unpredictability is part of the fun, of course, as is the earnest rhetoric, the admirable characters, and -- what is perhaps the aspect of her work least celebrated among her admirers -- the sometimes hilarious and unfailingly acerbic element of satire.
		As I mentioned above, Tepper needs a strong central character to hold everything together, and Benita Alvarez-Shipton, a bright and resourceful New Mexico bookstore clerk trapped in an unrewarding marriage to a drunken bum, is one of her strongest and most appealing.
	www.locusmag.com /2000/Reviews/BookReview11aWolfeOnTepper.html (884 words)

	Sheri S. Tepper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		‘Tepper effectively combines satire, inventive social engineering, strong main characters and a plot that works on both internal anti external levels in what may be her best novel to date’ Kirkus
		On her sixteenth birthday, the princess Beauty sidesteps the sleeping curse placed upon her by her wicked aunt, the fairy Carabosse - only to be kidnapped by visitors from another time and place, far from the picturesque castle in fourteenth century England.
		'Tepper is a wise and compassionate narrator, and when it comes to spinning a yarn that you don't ever want to stop reading, there are few better spinners than she is' Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/sheristepper1.html (464 words)

	Sheri S. Tepper
		Sheri S. Tepper has crafted a far-future fantasy that reads like the best of whodunits: murder, religion, treason, a mysterious ailment called batfly fever, interplanetary spies, true love, and planetary consciousness are the strands that make up this colorful tale.
		A group of six women make a pact when they were students together in the heady sixties, vowing that each of them would find a place to stand where she could be woman as woman was meant to be, and thereafter she would never decline or fall from that place.
		An inspired, thought-provoking novel of infinite surprise, unrestrained brilliance and mind-blowing imagination, The Family Tree is a tour de force from Sheri S. Tepper, proving once again why she is one of the most highly praised and beloved storytellers writing today.
	www.herebedragons.co.uk /hell/st.htm (1266 words)

	Sheri S. Tepper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rather, the Questioner is haunted by a story she heard of an interstellar creature, older than life on Earth, surviving, though mutilated, on one of the six moons of Newholme...
		Sheri Stewart Tepper was born in Colorado, where she lived until recently.
		As well as science fiction and fantasy novels, Sheri Tepper has written crime and horror novels under her own name and various pseudonyms.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/sheristepper.html (1260 words)

	Sheri S. Tepper's Shadow's End (a review)
		Once again, Sheri S. Tepper fulfills my expectations with Shadow’s End, but unfortunately those expectations are negligible.
		And because we are eager, Tepper offers us hints of a solution to the mystery, but they are lost among fears of the unknown and gruesomely detailed monsters.
		Tepper creates astounding worlds with exceptional characters and mysterious plots and then leaves the reader wondering what happened to the story.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/fantasy_and_science_fiction/9177 (303 words)

	Sheri S. Tepper's The Companions. The Eternal Night Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Web Site
		The Companions is the latest work from Sheri Tepper and it is one of her best.
		It is no secret that I am a long-time fan of Tepper's work but I would be the first to admit that there are some of her previous books that are much harder to read than others.
		As with many of Tepper's books there is a clear underlying message to both the reader and the world at large.
	www.eternalnight.co.uk /books/t/teppersheris/thecompanions.html (426 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Companions : A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tepper's command of language and characterization should have readers busily turning pages right up to the climax, even if, now and then, they will want to install earplugs to soften the shrieking of axes being ground.
		I think Tepper really limited herself by telling the bulk of the story in the first person -- a new technique for her -- because _The Companions_ didn't seem to have the scope of her novels where she's free to jump about more in time and space.
		This is one of the things I like about Tepper's books, her aliens are really "alien", which is as I think it should be.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006053821X?v=glance (2288 words)

	The Companions by Sherri S. Tepper
		Sheri Tepper takes much the same approach as White in the creation of her aliens.
		Tepper also looks at our mistakes and failings and these tend to come to the fore in her novels.
		Tepper is treading in the foot-marks of her predecessors.
	www.sfcrowsnest.co.uk /sfnews2/04_april/review0404_2.shtml (927 words)

	BookLoons Reviews - Visitor by Sheri S. Tepper
		As well as being one of the most distinguished figures in the world of speculative fiction, Sheri S. Tepper is also one of its most distinctive voices.
		Tepper preaches her distaste for the revealed religions with their books of faith, from which intolerant old men draw commandments to make young men and women commit murder in the name of God.
		Her message is of peace and love for all the men and women who strive for it; of strict justice for the powerful and merciless; and of compassion and charity for the misguided who follow them into wickedness.
	www.bookloons.com /cgi-bin/Review.ASP?bookid=1910 (537 words)

	Sheri S. Tepper -- Recent and Upcoming Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An heiress on the isolated planet of Haven must unmask a terrible truth--or else the entire civilization is doomed to be swept away on a cosmic sea of oblivion.
		A wave of fundamentalism is sweeping across the globe as the millennium approaches, and a power-hungry presidential candidate sees his ticket to success in making an example out of a teenage girl who abandoned her infant in a Dumpster.
		Quasi-science fiction is this novel revolving around a bored married woman's final realization of her marriage's limitations and the intrusion of the plant world into the affairs of men.
	www.non.com /books/Tepper_Sheri_r.html (1094 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Beauty (Millennium Fantasy Masterworks S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She escapes, and her subsequent adventures take her to imaginary countries, the land of Faery, the late 20th century (where she is brutally raped), and to various times during her own century where her descendants become, in turn, Cinderella, Snow White and the Frog Prince.
		She sees the destruction of beauty all around us by those who believe humanity has a right to use up the rest of nature, and this book is a stark warning that if we don't change our ways we will destroy the world.
		I thought that Sheri S. Tepper could not disturb me more than when she wrote "Gibbons Decline and Fall", but she has.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1857987225 (993 words)

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