Shadow's End - Hardcover

Tepper, Sheri S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553095145 ISBN 13: 9780553095142

Publisher: Spectra, 1994

Synopsis

Lutha Tallstaff is sent to a remote planet with her young son and her lover, and soon realized they are part of a cosmic pattern that will alter their understanding of life, love, good, and evil

About this title

About the Author:

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) is the award-winning author of A Plague of Angels, Sideshow, Beauty, Raising the Stones, Grass, The Gate to Women's Country, After Long Silence, and Shadow's End. Grass was a New York Times Notable Book and Hugo Award nominee, and Beauty was voted Best Fantasy Novel by the readers of Locus magazine.

From Booklist:

With such world-building epics as A Plague of Angels , Tepper has secured a reputation for uniquely combining elements of science fiction and fantasy that she maintains in her latest novel by delving into both mythmaking and original scientific speculation. It tells the story of Dinadh, an isolated, human-populated world surrounded by dead planets. A century ago, an unknown force or race known only as the Ularians mysteriously wiped humanity off all the planets within several light-years of Dinadh. Now the unseen Ularians have returned, and the Earth-led Alliance is asking Lutha Tallstaff to return to Dinadh to track down her missing former lover, Leelson Famber, who alone may hold the key to the Ularians' identity. Tepper makes brilliant use of alternating first- and third-person narration and also of fanciful supporting characters, such as Snark, a criminal whose punishment as a "shadow" involves constant, full-sensory monitoring by the Alliance. Although not one of Tepper's best, Shadow's End shows that her skill at inventing new cultures and their citizenry remains impressive. Carl Hays

About this edition

• Publisher: Spectra
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0553095145
• ISBN 13: 9780553095142
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 388