Gibbon's Decline and Fall

Gibbon's Decline and Fall

by SheriS.Tepper (Author)

Synopsis

Something evil is threatening the world. Of the seven extraordinary women forming the Decline and Fall Club, six remain. The seventh, Sophy, disappeared three years before, her dazzling, unearthly beauty undiminished. Her friends come to see that unlocking the secret of Sophy's disappearance will be the key to the survival of humanity.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Voyager
Published: 01 Dec 1997

ISBN 10: 0006482686
ISBN 13: 9780006482680

Media Reviews

`The Women's Room invaded by Big Brother. A provocative, devastating, enthralling consciousness raiser'
Kirkus Reviews

`Visceral and arresting. Curl up with it'
FT

`Opening as near-future realism, the novel metamorphoses into a mythical telling of the struggle between those who desire domination and the forces of balance and harmony. It entwines Native American folk legends with modern science fiction in a well told story of female anger'
New Scientist

`Tepper can be characterized as a quirkily feminist writer... this fable of ethics, feminism and transcendence employs an intriguing concept involving an alternate branching of the evolutionary tree... As always, Tepper creates excellent female characters transported by a swiftly flowing plot'
PW

`Tepper never forgets to give the reader a gripping story on which to hang the serious concerns that lie at the root of her books... It's the breadth of it all, and how it all interrelates, that proves so absorbing... she shows how taking responsibility for one's own life and actions can become a kind of butterfly effect'
Fantasy and Science Fiction

Author Bio

Sheri Tepper was born in Colorado. She worked for many years for non-profit-making organizations and was a writer of children's fiction. She sold her first adult novel in 1982 and has written many highly acclaimed science fiction and fantasy novels since then. She has also written crime and horror. She now lives in New Mexico.