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Title: The Visitor by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 0-380-82100-1 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94 (17 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: An odd duck of a tale
Comment: Tepper is an odd writer, each book different (at least, after her early fantasy trilogies), each book often exploring a different moral or idea. Some more successful than others. Always well written.
The Visitor starts some generations into the future, on an Earth considerably changed after a catastrophic occurrence. We find, as does the key protagonist Disme Latimer as she reads the diary of her ancestress Nell Latimer, that something like an asteroid hit the Earth hard enough to shift tectonic plates, and kill most of the humans then living.
The survivors split into many smaller communities. Disme is essentially an orphan, watched over for some ultimately nefarious purpose by her stepfamily. She sees and hears things and beings that others don't, but she keeps that information to herself.
Nell joined a group of scientists who built a shelter deep underground hoping to survive the catastrophe. They took shifts in cryogenic sleep and kept an eye on the survivors. Eventually, Nell comes out of sleep to the time of Disme. Which is when things get strange.
Without giving anymore away, there's a 'god' with a small 'g,' a being of the Fell,and people who get called to take on the aspects of avatars (for want of a better word), all brought into the mix. They go on a quest, find their various counterparts, and let the avators use them when needed, all of which leads to a confrontation between the avatars and the creatures of the Fell.
Sounds like a fantasy in some ways, but it's more religious than anything else. The god is there to give humans yet another potential turning point. The questions at the end relate to whether or not we'll take a correct fork.
Is it successful? I'm not sure. The characters are well crafted, and stay individuals even when their avatars take possession. The world is interesting. The Latimer family is interesting. But somehow the interactions are unconvincing, forced. I won't forget it, but I'm not sure I'll want to read it again.
Rating: 5
Summary: Strong and vibrant
Comment: Tepper has a strong and vibrant voice in her books that knits incredible, terrifying, beautiful worlds together. The Visitor is a shining example.
A book to answer the questions of what happens to us in the very near future after the Earth is struck by an asteriod, it leaps eons to raise issues of science, magic and science as magic. Its underpinnings are futuristic and fantastic, but its story is an emotionally honest tale of the herione's life, disasters, and future consorting with "gods."
The characters in this book are wonderfully broad and deep, providing true warp and weft to a fantastic story. Tepper reaches into each of them, pulls out their loves, dreams and fears, and lays them bare for reweaving into a solid story. The imagery of the book's unbelievable violence is tempered by the delicate empathy in its touching humanity. Strong, warm, bloody, icy: you care about the people in this book.
Strongly recommended, I wish it had never come to an end.
Rating: 5
Summary: Entertaining and thought-provoking!
Comment: An excellent read, as always. A page-turner, as always. Packed with interesting and creatively presented criticisms of politics, religion, and the weaknesses of humankind. I often get the feeling that Tepper should be writing non-fiction, since her stories are so full of essay-worthy social criticism, but I'm glad she chose fiction after all, because it's great to encounter an author (of any age, although I've heard her call herself a brontosaurus!) who's not at all timid about putting real meat into her work. Thank you, Sheri.
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Title: The Companions : A Novel by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 006053821X Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Fresco by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 038081658X Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Singer from the Sea by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 0380791994 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Six Moon Dance by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 0380791986 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper ISBN: 0553280643 Publisher: Spectra Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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