
by SheriS.Tepper (Author)
Barbaric customs and bizarre human cults are preserved on the planet Elsewhere. The rest of the universe has been taken over by the Hobbs Land Gods, which means that everyone alive, with the exception of the people on Elsewhere, lives in perfect harmony with nature and with each other. But Elsewhere is ruled by computer-encrypted professors who have been dead for a thousand years. The professors were dedicated to maintaining human diversity. Their ancient analogs are dedicated to something far more sinister. The time has come to consider whether enslavement by the Hobbs Land Gods is not preferable to the depravity being cultivated on Elsewhere. The time has come to ask the Big Question: what is the Destiny of Man? And answer it...
                        Format:  Paperback
                         Pages: 496
                        Edition: New
                        
                        
                        Publisher: Gollancz 
 Published: 05 Dec 2002
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        ISBN 10:  185798319X
 ISBN 13: 9781857983197
                        
                        Book Overview: Tepper has developed into one of the best novelists in the  field - she is magnifiently skilled  LOCUS  SIDESHOW deserves to be on the same shelf as any classic you care to name. Sheri Tepper is one of the greats of human literature  ANALOG  Remember reading? Really *reading*, I mean ... the way I read in childhood - for knowledge, for transformation, for survival - that's how I found myself reading Sheri Tepper's exhilarating SIDESHOW  Carol Sternhell, VILLAGE VOICE