Sheri S. Tepper

Wiele pokoleń temu ludzie uciekli na kosmiczną anomalię zwaną Trawą. Jednakże, zanim tam przybyli, inny gatunek uznał planetę za swoacute;j dom i zbudował na niej swoją kulturę... Teraz śmiercionośna zaraza rozprzestrzenia się pośroacute;d gwiazd, nie omijając żadnego świata poza Trawą. Okazuje się, że za tajemnicą odporności planety kryje się...

Atop a twisting,canyon-climbing road, a witch lurks in a fortressbuilt strong to keep out dragons and ogres. Inanother part of the countryside, a young orphan ismaturing into a beautiful woman in the enchantedvillage that is her home. Somewhere nearby, a young manis seeking adventure after running away from hisfamily's small farm. Suddenly a...

Lutha Talstaff is sent to the remote, unpopulated planet Dinadh with her young son and her lover, and soon realizes they are part of a cosmic pattern that will alter their understanding of life, love, good, and evil....

What could be more commonplace than grass, or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets -- and nothing will ever be...

With thecritically acclaimed novels The Gate ToWomen's Country, Raising The Stones, and theHugo-nominated Grass, SheriTepper has established herself as one of the majorscience fiction writers of out Time. InBeauty, she broadens her territory evenfurther, with a novel that evokes all the richness offairy tale and fable. Drawing on the...

On the planet of Elsewhere, the Council hadalways enforced the governing of each province inthe manner the people had chosen, so long as eachrespected its neighbors' local customs--and so longas the people remained within their homelands.Generations later, inhabitants have begun to questionthis tradition. The Council has receivedmysterious...