Sheri S. Tepper 1929-2016

Have had rather enough of 2016, thanks.

Crap. I guess I should excavate The Fresco from my TBR pile and read it in memory.

Wow. I didn't realize she was in her late 80's... Have only read Grass by her, which I really liked. Also have Six Moon Dance and The Gate To Women's Country waiting on the TBR shelf.

So sorry to hear this.

Someone somewhere seems to be needing a lot of writers and entertainers this year and is pulling them one by one... The names I grew up hearing when the genre was discussed keep disappearing from this world.

>4 ScoLgo:
I never realized her age either - maybe because I discovered her late enough...

Her first novel was published when she was age 55, The Gate to Women's Country at 59. Very inspiring for the late starters among us.

>7 dukedom_enough:

I had not realized that. Explains why my idea of her age was so weird....

I discovered her when I was searching for a different perspective on SF and rather randomly stumbled upon The Gate to Women's Country. I read it in a day and was blown away. I spent the next few years meticulously tracking down as many of her works as I could, even those under her pseudonyms. She was seldom subtle in her themes but I was always absorbed and entertained by her works. One of my very favorites. I'm sad I'll never see another new work by her, but grateful she was as prolific as she was during her writing career.

I didn't realize that she was also A J Orde and B J Oliphant. I have several mysteries under those names.

Very sad news...

I knew she was elderly, and that Fish tails (her last novel) brought together characters and themes from many of her novels, so am sad but not surprised to see this. Several of her books are among my all-time favourites and it is sad to know that there will be no more.

>3 tardis:

The Fresco is one of my favorites. One of the few of hers set in the near future, on Earth (mostly).

Too bad. Grass is my favorite, so I'll read that in memoriam. Everyone above seems to have had their eyes opened; in my case, I'd forgotten she wrote so much fantasy.

Oh damn. I had a copy of Revanants from the mid-80's, started it a couple of times, and finally finished it last year? year before? I also read Grass and fell in love with its view on women and their place in society. That theme runs strongly through her books it seems; it certainly does with the one I just finished, Plague of Angels and I'm glad I splurged and bought a hard cover edition of Fish Tails.

Thank you for your work with others, Ms. Tepper, and for the words you left us with. Your crone wisdom has made the world a better place.

The Gate to Women's Country was not her first book, though it was the one that put her on the map and the first one I read. I also read After Long Silence which was copyrighted before it and there were some others before that, including some children's books, I believe. http://www.feministsf.org/authors/tepper.html

I've read 5 or so of her books and my favorite is Raising the Stones. I have a couple of others here waiting to be read, so I'll move them to the top of my long To Read list in her honor.

I've only read The Gate to Women's Country so far and loved it. I also have Six Moon Dance on my TBR. I will definitely seek out her other books.