“To me, fantasy has always been the
genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as
well maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.” –
Sheri S. Tepper
Born in Littleton, Colorado on this
date in 1929, Tepper wrote science fiction, horror and mystery novels, perhaps best known for her science fiction with an eco-feminist
slant. Her novel Grass is considered a classic on
this theme. Tepper started writing under the name Sheri
Stewart Eberhart, first doing children’s books and poetry but then finding her
niche in the sci-fi/fantasy world, where she used several other pen names
including A. J. Orde, E. E. Horlak, and B. J. Oliphant.
Among her top selling books were The
Revenants, the Locus-award winning Beauty, and two best-selling
multiple-award winning trilogies: The Marianne Series and The
Arbai Trilogy. All told, she wrote 40 novels, 3 books of
poetry, and many short stories and essays. Shortly before her death in 2016 she
was honored with the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
““I have always lived
in a world in which I'm just a spot in history,” she said. “My life is
not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and
that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing.”
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