Sideshow (Gollancz S.F.)

Sideshow (Gollancz S.F.)

by SheriS.Tepper (Author)

Synopsis

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...

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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

Author Bio
Sheri S. Tepper is the author of several resoundingly acclaimed novels, including the Arthur C. Clarke nominated Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Six Moon Dance, The Family Tree, A Plague of Angels, Sideshow and Beauty, which was voted Best Fantasy Novel of the Year by readers of Locus and will be appearing as part of the Fantasy Masterworks series.