William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land always meant an enormous amount to me – one of the dullest books ever written, and one of the most fascinating. I ignored the religious part, but I liked the rest of it, the idea of this country where animals could talk. There was always a big male/female love affair going on at the heart of those books. These were, as I recall, mythic romances, almost without exception. I'm trying to remember what I absolutely loved when I was a kid.
''Science fiction still is an idea genre, but early on it was to think up ideas about differences, and now it's to try to solve problems. Horlak, and mysteries under the pseudonyms A.J. They include Raising the Stones (1991), Beauty (1991, winner of the 1992 Locus Award for Best Fantasy), A Plague of Angels (1993), Sideshow (1992, completing the trilogy with Grass and Raising the Stones), Shadow's End (1994), Gibbon's Decline and Fall (1996), The Family Tree (1997), and Six Moon Dance (1998). Most of her notable later novels are also SF (though some have enough elements of fantasy to bemuse reviewers). 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). Other YA series books, featuring Jinian, Marianne, and Mavin Manyshaped, followed, along with a few standalone books – including The Revenants (1984) and After Long Silence (1987). The first fantasy novel she wrote was The Revenants, but the Ace editor thought it was too complicated for a first novel, so she quickly wrote the ''True Game'' books: King's Blood Four and Necromancer Nine (both 1983), and Wizard's Eleven (1984). 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. She runs a guest ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Īs Sheri S. She married Gene Tepper in the late '60s. She married for the first time at age 20, but divorced ''when I was 26 or 27, so I became a single mother of two kids, and spent ten years on my own, working all kinds of different jobs.'' That included a clerical job with international relief agency CARE, but her major career was with what was then called Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, where she stayed for 24 years (1962-1986), eventually becoming Executive Director. Tepper was born Shirley Stewart Douglas, July 16, 1929, near Littleton, Colorado. (excerpted from Locus Magazine, September 1998)
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