Sheri Stewart Tepper (July 16, 1929 – October 22, 2016)[2] was an American writer of science fiction,horror andmystery novels. She is primarily known for herfeminist science fiction, which explored themes of sociology, gender and equality, as well as theology and ecology. Often referred to as aneco-feminist of science fiction literature, Tepper personally preferred the label eco-humanist.[3] Some of her novels fall into the category ofclimate fiction, in which the changing environment of a planet affects the life of its colonists (or vice versa) in the form of a mystery to be solved; examples includeGrass (1989),Beauty (1991),[4]A Plague of Angels (1993),The Family Tree (1997),Six Moon Dance (1998), andSinger from the Sea (1999).[5][6][7] Though the majority of her works operate in a world of fantastical imagery and metaphor, at the heart of her writing is real-world injustice and pain. She employed severalpen names during her lifetime, includingA. J. Orde,E. E. Horlak, andB. J. Oliphant.[8]
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She was bornShirley Stewart Douglas nearLittleton,Colorado.[9] As a child, she read science fiction and fantasy byA. Merritt andC.S. Lewis, as well as Frank Baum's'Oz' books, William Hope Hodgson'sThe Night Land andIslandia by Austin Tappan Wright. She later commented, "These were the books I went back to again and again."[9]
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Tepper recalled that she "spent ten years...working all kinds of different jobs" as a single mother of two.[9] This included time working as a clerical assistant for the international relief agency, CARE.[9] From 1962 to 1986, she worked for Rocky MountainPlanned Parenthood, eventually as its executive director.[9]
She wrote poetry and children's stories as Sheri S. Eberhart, then took a break from writing. By the mid-1980s, she was publishing science fiction novels, includingThe Revenants (1984), and the books of theTrue Game series, includingKing's Blood Four (1983),Necromancer Nine (1983), andWizard's Eleven (1984). Other related works followed, including her ecofeminist novelsThe Gate to Women's Country (1988) andGrass (1989), which were part of the Arbai Trilogy. Later novels in the 1990s and 2000s includedBeauty (1991), which won aLocus Award;Shadow's End (1994);The Family Tree (1997);Six Moon Dance (1998);Singer from the Sea (1999);The Visitor (2002);The Companions (2003); andThe Margarets (2007).
ThePeter series was the first published. TheMavin series takes place earlier. TheJinian series takes place during and after the same time period as thePeter series, often giving a different perspective on the same events.
This series has a crossover with the Plague of Angels series.
"The Gardener" (novella) inNight Visions 6. Released asThe Bone Yard (1988) in mass market. Collaboration with F. Paul Wilson and Ray Garton.World Fantasy Award—Long Fiction finalist (1989)
"Someone Like You" inThe Further Adventures of the Joker (ed. Martin Greenberg) (1990)
^"Sheri S. Tepper".Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2012. Literature Resource Center. Web.[full citation needed] Retrieved 2014-06-10.
^Nicholls, Peter; Clute, John; Langford, David (2011)."Tepper, Sheri S".The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.Orbit Books. RetrievedFebruary 5, 2025....this is a book about despoliation as a consequence of Climate Change and other Disasters, including, again, the incapacity of male humans to change their behaviour: in the end, the planet has no chance.
^abcdef"Sheri S. Tepper interview".Locus Online; locusmag.com. Excerpt from "Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe", Locus 41:3 (September 1998), pp. 4–8. RetrievedAugust 2, 2014.
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