Sheri S. Tepper: Difference between revisions

* [[Future Food Is Artificial]]: In the section of ''Beauty'' set in the future, the population produces only one type of food. It is small, squarish, and cracker-like. The artificial colours indicate what vitamins each cracker provides. They are largely tasteless and textureless (although one of the blues has a slight flavour).

* [[Functional Magic]]: ''The True Game'' series has not one but two detailed and structured systems of magic. One is described rather better than the other.

* [[Genius Loci]]: In ''The True Game'' series, there are several examples of Genius Loci such as forests, roads, and pools. {{spoiler|It is revealed in the final trilogy that the planet it self also is sentient, and contemplating committing suicide.}}

* [[Heir Club for Men]]: Played with.

* [[Lady Land]]: Is used in ''Six Moon Dance'' and ''[[The Gate to Womens Country]]''.

* [[Mister Seahorse]]: Found in Tepper's ''The Fresco''.

* [[Persecution Flip]]: ''Six Moon Dance'' is about a repressive matriarchal society. Tepper has a very feminist message in a lot of her work, so this is sort of like "examining demographics that would lead to men being oppressed in the same way as women".

* [[Planetary Romance]]: In ''The True Game'' series

* [[Religion Is Magic]]: In ''Beauty'', Christian miracles are unconsciously drawn from the same magical energy that pagan magicians and fairies consciously work with.

* [[Robotic Torture Device]]: In ''Six Moon Dance'' there's a sexual bondage device which is set to inflict sadistic pleasure at first...before it just gets sadistic. And deadly.

** This troper remembers a conversation between Peter and Maven implying that shifter simply consolidate their neural net when forming smaller shapes.

** And this troper remembers in a subsequent scene that Mavin made soup out of the "discard". But it is the only time this problem and solution is mentioned.

* [[Tomato Surprise]]: In ''The Family Tree'', the story is told from two disconnected points of view through most of the novel, until it is revealed {{spoiler|when the two groups meet that the second set of characters are all talking animals}}. Then shortly thereafter we find out that {{spoiler|the talking animals' dumb beasts of burden are actually human beings}}.

* [[To Serve Man]]: In ''The Awakeners,'' humans are allowed to immigrate to the planet Northshore after the government essentially makes a [[Deal With the Devil]] with a native species (that resemble human sized, talking birds). {{spoiler|When a person dies they are fed a liquid, The Tears of Viranel, which "supposedly" helps them on into the afterlife. In reality this liquid turns them into walking zombies, and tenderises their flesh so the native species can eat them.}} Um, yeah...

 

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