“One of SF’s most distinctive voices.”
Locus
“Tepper holds up a funhouse glass to customs and mores many of us take for granted.”
Denver Post
“Her novels are the old-fashioned kind, despite their futuristic settings; the kind that wrap you in their embrace, that take over your life, that make the world disappear.”
Village Voice Literary Supplement
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THE FRESCO
“Another consummately skillful, wise, sometimes hilarious, inconoclastic performance.”
Kirkus Reviews
“Nicely constructed…First-contact stories are a commonplace in SF…Imagine and describe the contactee and the E.T.s, then let the story unfold. That’s the springboard. Sheri Tepper uses it to good effect, taking off from the platform for a series of swoops and spins and dogfighting maneuvers worthy of a fighter ace.”
San Diego Union-Tribune
“Enchantingly sly…This novel succeeds brilliantly…It shines as brightly as the stars that may one day provide what Tepper’s women really want—true peace.”
Publishers Weekly (*Starred Review*)