Sheri S. Tepper in general

This is my first Sherri S. Tepper, and I am impressed. This book does it all for me – strange aliens, different societies, complex and engaging story line, and social commentary (about the different roles and men and women adopt). This book is very complex, with multiple story lines. We have: • Mouche, the supernumerary boy who is sold off to a Consort house • Ornery Bastable, the girl who runs away to be a sailor • The Questioner, the ruthless implementer of “Haraldson’s edicts” • Ellin, the dancer clone • the inscrutable Quaggi, about whom very little is known • 3 angry men – Ashes, Mooly and Machinist • Marool ...  Read the complete review

Will be Moved.. Yadda, Yadda! and on with the Review: Benita Alvarez, taking time out from baby-sitting her drunken, abusive husband, encounters two aliens in the woods near her New Mexico home. The aliens, members of the benevolent Pistach race, inform her that they have come to earth to assist its development into a suitably civilized society, able to attain membership in their galaxy-spanning Confederation. They ask her to inform the authorities of their intentions, and give her money and a mysterious technological device with which to impress and convince said authorities. From this starting point, Benita is catapulted into a world of ...  Read the complete review