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by Sheri S. Tepper (Author)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (10 April 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575074477
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575074477
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 498,837 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Sheri Tepper, one of the foremost science fiction writers in the world, gives us an exciting, evocative and thought-provoking tale where science and magic meet head-on. A group of colonists, waking every few hundred years to see what's been happening on the planet they fled to from a dying Earth, watch as the systems and rules they set in place so long ago become debased and decayed. The corrupt leaders govern by oppression, but technological resources run low and the knowledge of how to replace them is lost in the mists of time. Instead, the power-hungry leaders turn to sorcery of the blackest kind, kindled by pain and despair. And when they launch a religious crusade to wipe out all those who won't conform to the government's ever-more-stringent dictates, not even the original colonists - the new gods - are safe from the ravaging sorcery-fuelled armies of the righteous . . .


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Sheri S. Tepper is the author of several resoundingly acclaimed novels, including the Arthur C. Clarke nominated Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Six Moon Dance, The Family Tree, A Plague of Angels, Sideshow and Beauty, which was voted Best Fantasy Novel of the Year by readers of Locus and will be appearing as part of the Fantasy Masterworks series.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not Tepper's best - but still gripping, 17 April 2003
By purplepadma (London) - See all my reviews
  
I have to admit I gobbled this book up! In typical Tepper style, the early chapters were full of delightfully maddening unexplained detail, and the plot kept me hanging on. The book contains some very interesting characters, some extremely endearing, some truly revolting. As is often the case with Tepper's fiction, religion is a major theme, and there is a definite liberal/left-wing/pro-choice slant to the text. I have to say that I felt, as with her previous novel, 'The Fresco', that this work lacked some of the depth and richness of Tepper at her prime - something like a meal which is pretty delicious at the time, yet leaves you still a little hungry. Nevertheless, even though this is not quite as satisfying as, say, 'The Family Tree' or 'Raising the Stones', it's certainly well worth a read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mind-expanding stuff!, 5 Feb 2009
By A. J. Watson "Bones" (Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK) - See all my reviews
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The very fine print almost put me off, but thankfully I persevered - to be rewarded by a wonderful read.

Life on earth is almost wiped out by a mysterious asteroid, the survivors retaining a dim memory of pre-impact life, but controlled by a tyrannical ruling class who thwart all attempts at scientific advance, deeming it heresy.
Also surviving is a book which suggests that science still exists somewhere ... But deep in the earth, something malevolent has also survived ...

The story takes a while to coax one into realising what is going on; alternating chapters of pre- and post-armageddon life gradually drawing the disparate threads together, revealing the 'visitor' for what it is.

Ms.Tepper again uses one of her favourite devices here - a superhuman entity using unorthodox means to steer people down the correct path to peaceful co-existence.
Rather unsettling, but at the same time intriguing, is the way things just happen and end unexpectedly - only later does the other shoe drop.

As in her previous books, she shows little love for established authority, bigotry or religious dogma, preferring using your mind and 'doing the right thing', unrestricted by questionable ethical, moral and legal rules. By tackling some disturbing issues of power-hunger, religion and sorcery, she makes you reflect on how you live your life, how you think and how you would react in a similar situation. Mind-expanding stuff.
This ranks in the same league as 'Raising the Stones'.
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