A l'âge de 15 ans, Dawyd, fils de Stavia, décide de devenir un Brave. Cela signifie qu'il restera vivre dans la garnison, et ne reviendra plus chez sa mère. Sous le choc de la douleur, même si cette décision n'est pas une surprise totale, celle-ci se souvient, et ce sont les 22 premières années de sa vie (jusqu'à la naissance de Dawyd) que raconte le roman.

Un monde de femmes

With the publication of The Gate to Women's Country, Sheri S. Tepper came to be recognized as a major science fiction writer. Now the author of Raising the Stones and Grass -- a New York Times Notable Book and Hugo Award finalist -- turns to Beauty, a fantasy with a story that is more, much more than fable.Drawing on the wellspring of much-loved, well-remembered fairy tales, Tepper delivers a thought-provoking and finely crafted novel that thoroughly involves the reader in the life of one of the most captivating heroines in modern fantasy -- Beauty. On her sixteenth birthday Beauty is seemingly able to sidestep her aunt's curse. Instead she is transported to the future. Here begin her adventures as she travels magically back and forth in time to visit places both imaginary and real. Finally she comes to understand what has been her special gift to humanity all along.For in Beauty, there is beauty. And in beauty, magic. Without our enchanted places, humanity is no more than an upstart ape. And this, we realize, is why Beauty must be saved, both in the fantastical world of Tepper's novel and in the actual world in which we live.

La belle endormie

From The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal sample introduction to Sheri S. Tepper, the author of several resoundingly acclaimed novels, including Beauty, which was voted Best Fantasy Novel of the Year by readers of Locus. She is one of the few writers to have titles in both the SF and Fantasy Masterworks lists. This omnibus contains three of her acclaimed SF novels: After Long Silence, Shadow's End and Six Moon Dance.

Sheri S Tepper SF Gateway Omnibus

Pour les habitants du village, elle est l'Orpheline et tous l'aiment. Tous, sauf la Sorcière. Tapie dans sa citadelle, les pieds calés sur la dernière centrale nucléaire en activité, elle rêve de prendre le pouvoir par les armes. Les armes que les hommes ont laissées dans la station orbitale avant de fuir vers Bételgeuse, laissant derrière eux une Terre en ruine où les gangs et les monstres font la loi. Heureusement, il y a l'Orpheline, qui n'a jamais quitté le village mais possède d'étranges pouvoirs. Elle, l'Elue, sera-t-elle capable de sauver la planète ? C'est alors que les anges décident d'intervenir. Pas très catholiques, ils ont pour nom Guerre, Famine et Pestilence. L'un d'eux, justement, est le père de l'Orpheline. Et, sous prétexte d'éliminer la Sorcière, il compte expédier sa fille dans les étoiles...

Prière à l'ange obscur

The myriad alien civilizations populating far, distant worlds have many good reasons to detest the blight called "humankind" .

The Margarets

It was many years ago that humans came and settled the world of Newholme-cruelly bending the planet to their will; setting down roots and raising up cities and farms and a grand temple to their goddess. But now the ground itself is shaking with ever-increasing violence. And the Great Questioner, official arbiter of the Council of Worlds, has come to this isolated orb to investigate rumors of a terrible secret that lies buried deep within Newholme's past-a past that is not dead, not completely. And it will fall to Mouche, a beautiful youth of uncommon cleverness and spirit, to save his imperiled home by dicovering and embracing that which makes him unique among humans. For every living thing on newholme is doomed, unless Mouche can appease something dark and terrible that is coiled within...and surrender to the mysterious ecstatic revelry taht results when the six moons join.

Six Moon Dance

Generations ago, humans fled to the cosmic anomaly known as Grass. But before humanity arrived, another species had already claimed Grass for its own. It too had developed a culture...... Now a deadly plague is spreading across the stars, leaving no planet untouched, save for Grass. But the secret of the planet's immunity hides a truth so shattering it could mean the end of life itself.

Rituel de chasse

"Sheri S. Tepper takes the mental risks that are the lifeblood of science fiction and all imaginative fiction."-Ursula K. Le Guin, Los Angeles TimesHer first new novel since The Margarets, The Waters Rising marks the glorious return of the extraordinary Sheri S. Tepper, the award-winning contemporary master whom Locus has called, "one of sf's most distinctive voices." The Waters Rising tells a gripping story of a future already ravaged and now in even graver peril when a dreadful, awesome killing power is resurrected from the past. Readers of Margaret Atwood and Marge Piercy will join with fans of literary sf in praising this stunning masterwork of speculative fiction from one of the acknowledged greats.

Un monde de femmes

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