When the human settlers arrived on Hobbs Land, the native intelligent specvies, the Owlbrit, were already almost extinct. Before the last one died, a few years later, the humans had learned a little of their language, their ideas and theirb religion. It seemed the natural thing for the settlers to maintain the last Owlbrit temple, with the strange statue that was its God. When when that God died - disintegrating overnight - it seemed equally natural to start preparing its replacement. Maire Manone came to Hobbs Land to escape the harsh patriachal religion of Voorstod, but Voorstod hasn't forgotten her - or forgiven her. But the men who arrive on Hobbs Land to find and return Maire to her homeland haven't taken Hobbs Land's God into account . . .
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Sheri Stewart Tepper was born in Colorado in 1929 and is the author of a larger . Sheri S. Tepper, Raising the Stones. Thank you for reading books on BookFrom.
Sheri Stewart Tepper was born in Colorado in 1929 and is the author of a larger number of novels in the areas of science fiction, fantasy, horror and mystery, and is particularly respected for her works of feminist science fiction. Her many acclaimed novels include The Margarets and Gibbon's Decline And Fall, both shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, A Plague Of Angels, Sideshow and Beauty, which was voted Best Fantasy Novel Of The Year by readers of Locus magazine.
This item:Raising The Stones (Gollancz . Raising the Stones is the second novel in a sequence that starts with Grass and ends with Sideshow. Raising the Stones is primarily about religion and faith. Ships from and sold by AMM Books-UK. Protagonist Sam Girat was transplanted in childhood from the patriarchal and violent nation of Vorstood to the matriarchal and boring planet of Hobbs Land.
Sheri S. Tepper was born Shirley Stewart Douglas on July 16, 1929 near Littleton, Colorado. She held numerous jobs before becoming a full-time author including working at Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood from 1962 to 1986, eventually becoming the executive director. In the early 1960s, she wrote poems and children's stories under the name Sheri S. Eberhart. In the 1980s, she became a feminist and science fiction/fantasy writer.
Raising the Stones book. Published November 14th 2002 by Gollancz (first published 1990). 1857983254 (ISBN13: 9781857983258).
Raising the Stones weaves disparate threads to tell a story that builds to an inescapable climax. And, in a time when so many predict humanity won't survive through the next century, author Sheri S. Tepper gives us an insightful look into what is the best in all of us. About the Author
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RAISING THE STONES Sheri S. Tepper Sinks whoever raises the great stones; I've raised these stones as long as I was able I've . Wounded by my own soil tortured by my own shirt condemned by my own gods, these stones. Tepper Sinks whoever raises the great stones; I've raised these stones as long as I was able I've loved these stones as long as I was able these stones, my fate. тАФGeorge Seferis, "Mycenae" Collected Poems, Princeton University Press. Hobbs Land ONE The God's name was Bondru Dharm, which, according to the linguists who had worked with the Owlbrit before the last of them died, meant something to do with noonday.
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Tepper, Sheri S. They were the enthusiasts, the sectarian devotees, zealots of the Overmind, whose heads, unfooled-with by any outside force, urged them to stricter vigilance and more extreme effort. though his family and friends did not know it, was Shan Damzel. Another such was his friend and mentor, Howdabeen Churry. Though there was almost no difference in their ages, Shan considered himself Churry’s disciple. He went so far as to call Churry teacher, though only when they were alone