Sheri S. Tepper

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1983
  • Latest Book:
    October 2014
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About the Author

Sheri S. Tepper was born Shirley Stewart Douglas, July 16, 1929, near Littleton, Colorado. She married Gene Tepper in the late '60s. 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 her job with Planned Parenthood, until the early '80s. She is best known for her fantasy and science fiction novels. She has also written horror as E.E. Horlak, and mysteries under the pseudonyms A.J. Orde and B.J. Oliphant.

Full Series List in Order

Arbai

1 - Grass (Sep-1989)
2 - Raising the Stones (Aug-1990)
3 - Sideshow (May-1992)

Awakeners

1 - Northshore (Mar-1987)
2 - Southshore (Jun-1987)

The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped

1 - The Song of Mavin Manyshaped (Jan-1985)
2 - The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped (Jan-1985)
3 - The Search of Mavin Manyshaped (Jan-1985)

The End of the Game

1 - Jinian Footseer (Jan-1985)
2 - Dervish Daughter (Jan-1986)
3 - Jinian Star-Eye (Jan-1986)

Land of the True Game

1 - Kings Blood Four (Jan-1983)
2 - Necromancer Nine (Jan-1983)
3 - Wizards Eleven (Jan-1984)

Marianne

1 - Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore (Dec-1985)
2 - Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (Dec-1988)
3 - Marianne, the Matchbox and the Malachite Mouse (Aug-1989)

Plague of Angels

1 - A Plague of Angels (Oct-1993)
2 - The Waters Rising (Sep-2010)
3 - Fish Tails (Oct-2014)

The True Game

1 - Kings Blood Four (Jan-1983)
2 - Necromancer Nine (Jan-1983)
3 - Wizards Eleven (Jan-1984)
4 - The Song of Mavin Manyshaped (Jan-1985)
5 - The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped (Jan-1985)
6 - The Search of Mavin Manyshaped (Jan-1985)
7 - Jinian Footseer (Jan-1985)
8 - Dervish Daughter (Jan-1986)
9 - Jinian Star-Eye (Jan-1986)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

Beauty (1991)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • Kings Blood Four

    Land of the True Game - 1
    The True Game - 1

    In the lands of the True Game, your lifelong identity will emerge as you play. Prince or Sorcerer, Armiger or Tragamor, Demon or Doyen... Which will it be?...

  • Necromancer Nine

    Land of the True Game - 2
    The True Game - 2

    He wears the guise of a Necromancer: the black cloak, the broadrimmed hat, the gauze mask painted with a death's head. But raising the dead is the least of his Talents. He is a wild card that threatens the True Game itself. Demon. Doyen. Dragon. a...

  • Wizards Eleven

    Land of the True Game - 3
    The True Game - 3

    The son of Mavin Manyshaped is back. Let the Players of the True Game beware. A giant stalks the mountains. The Shadowpeople gather by the light of the moon. The Bonedancers raise up armies of the dead. And the Wizard's Eleven sleep, trapped in...

  • The Revenants

    They seek to answer riddles that have no answer; They are bound on a quest that has no end. Thewson of the Lion Courts. Leona, Queen of the Beasts. Medlo, outlawed Prince. Jasmine the Dancer. Terascouros the Singer. And young Jaer, whose like has ...

  • The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped

    The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped - 2
    The True Game - 5

  • Jinian Footseer

    The End of the Game - 1
    The True Game - 7

  • The Search of Mavin Manyshaped

    The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped - 3
    The True Game - 6

  • The Song of Mavin Manyshaped

    The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped - 1
    The True Game - 4

    When recklessly headstrong Mavin Manyshaped learns to control her Talent for changing into any shape, she begins to fulfill her destiny as the most notorious shape-shifter in all the lands of the True Game...

  • Marianne, the Magus, and the Manticore

    Marianne - 1

    LEGACY OF MAGIC Marianne was born to luxury in the tiny nation of Alphenlicht, nestled in the mountains between Turkey and Iraq. Then her parents died, leaving control of their fortune to the older brother she fears. Struggling to make her way as ...



  • Blood Heritage

    Badger Ettison does not believe in demons. Until a shrieking, freezing horror escapes its ancient prison. A soulless hunger. Hunger that turns a beautiful woman into a shriveled husk before she has time to scream. Hunger that has no form, no substanc...

  • Dervish Daughter

    The End of the Game - 2
    The True Game - 8

  • Jinian Star-Eye

    The End of the Game - 3
    The True Game - 9

  • The Bones

    Mahlia Ettison thought she had left terror behind. But the quiet community she thinks of as sanctuary hides an ancient evil -- voodoo magic that steals lives and souls from the most innocent: children. The bones rise from their mud-clogged grave, ...

  • Northshore

    Awakeners - 1

    Come to the world of the River. A world distant in time and space, a world where the pace of life is counted by the tides of the great River; but where, as in the river itself, there are swift dark currents flowing under a placid surface. Meet Pam...

  • Southshore

    Awakeners - 2

    RETURN TO THE WORLD OF THE RIVER A world far distant in place and time, where the pace of life is counted by the tides of the great River...a world where _ the human colony has lived for millenia in uneasy peace with the native race--the Thraish, ...

  • After Long Silence

    Humankind has colonized the planet Jubal, but only to a point. It is the massive crystal Presences which seem to hold true dominion. In some they inspire awe, in others dread. All that is known for certain is that they restrict travel and technology-...

  • The Gate to Women's Country

    Since the flames died three hundred years ago, human civilization has evolved into a dual society: Women's Country, where walled towns enclose what's left of past civilization, nurtured by women and a few nonviolent men; and the adjacent garrisons wh...

  • Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods

    Marianne - 2

  • Marianne, the Matchbox and the Malachite Mouse

    Marianne - 3

    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 . ...



  • Grass

    Arbai - 1

    Here is a novel as original as the breathtaking, unspoiled world for which it is named, a place where all appears to be in idyllic balance. Generations ago, humans fled to the cosmic anomaly known as Grass. Over time, they evolved a new and intric...

  • Raising the Stones

    Arbai - 2

    Hobbs Land was a quiet agricultural colony, a peaceful plant where men and women worked together as equals to provide food for other worlds. Once it had been the home of the alien Owlbrit, who left behind only the temples where their strange gods had...

  • Beauty

    Fairytale Retellings: Sleeping Beauty

    Drawing on the wellspring of much-loved, well remembered fairy tales, Tepper delivers a thought provoking and finely crafted novel that thoroughly involves the reader in the life of one of the most captivating heroines in modem fantasy -- Beauty. On ...

  • Sideshow

    Arbai - 3

    On the planet of Elsewhere, the Council had always enforced the governing of each province in the manner the people had chosen, so long as each respected its neighbors' local customs--and so long as the people remained within their homelands. Generat...

  • A Plague of Angels

    Plague of Angels - 1

    Atop a twisting, canyon-climbing road, a witch lurks in a fortress built strong to keep out dragons and ogres. In another part of the countryside, a young orphan is maturing into a beautiful woman in the enchanted village that is her home. Somewhere ...

  • Shadow's End

    A century ago, a mysterious force wiped out human life on all surrounding worlds, leaving the planet Dinadh untouched. Now the unknown force is back--and this time humanity's only hope lies with a woman who'd give anything not to get involved. Lutha ...

  • Gibbon's Decline and Fall

    The year is 2000. America is swept up in the tide of fundamentalism that is overwhelming the world. Suicide cults and paranoid militias are on the rise and mobs of hooded men drive young women from the streets, as the right-wing American Alliance mar...

  • The Family Tree

    THE ONCE FERTILE EARTH OF DORA HENRY'S CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN UNDERVALUED AND OVERDEVELOPED. NOW NATURE, APPARENTLY, HAS DECIDED TO FIGHT BACK. Police officer Dora Henry is investigating the bizarre murders of three geneticists. Meanwhile, strange thin...

  • Six Moon Dance

    It was many, many years ago that humans came and settled the world of Newholme--cruelly bending the planet to their will; setting down roots and raising up cities and farms and a grand temple to their goddess. But now the ground itself is shaking wit...

  • Singer from the Sea

    A good and proper aristocrat on the isolated, seemingly back-ward planet of Haven, Genevieve has been carefully instructed in the Covenants--the ancient, inflexible laws governing the women of her class. She knows what is expected of her: marriage in...



  • The Fresco

    The bizarre events that have been occurring across the United States--unexplained "oddities" tracked by Air Defense, mysterious disappearances, shocking deaths--seem to have no bearing on Benita Alvarez-Shipton's life. That is, until the soft-spoken ...

  • The Visitor

    A startling, provocative, and remarkable tale of a future in need of a savior...and a champion as unlikely as true justice. The "magic" that once was America died horribly along with most of the Earth's inhabitants when an asteroid crashed into th...

  • The Companions

    Three planets in deep space were named by their human discoverers to reflect their environments: lush and foreboding Jungle, which swallowed up an exploratory team; Stone, phenomenally rich in rare ore; and Moss, the most enigmatic -- and dangerous -...

  • The Margarets

    The only human child living in a human work colony on the Martian satellite Phobos, little Margaret Bain has devised a system for keeping the suffocating demons of boredom and loneliness at bay: She invents six imaginary companions, each an extension...

  • The Waters Rising

    Plague of Angels - 2

    Long ago was the Big Kill, a time when the slaughterers walked the earth unseen, killing, departing, returning to kill again and again. Since then mountains have risen, deserts have fallen, the last of humankind has scattered; myth, superstition, and...

  • Fish Tails

    Plague of Angels - 3

    In Fish Tails, two of Sheri S. Tepper’s beloved characters -- Abasio and Xulai (A Plague of Angels and The Waters Rising) -- and their children travel from village to village scattered across the sparsely populated land of Tingawa. They are searchi...

Award-Winning Books by Sheri S. Tepper

Beauty
1992 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sheri S. Tepper has published 35 books.

Sheri S. Tepper does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fish Tails, was published in October 2014.

The first book by Sheri S. Tepper, Necromancer Nine, was published in January 1983.

Yes. Sheri S. Tepper has 8 series.
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