The Visitor (GOLLANCZ S.F.) - Softcover

Tepper, Sheri S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575074477 ISBN 13: 9780575074477

Publisher: Gollancz, 2003

Sheri Tepper, one of the foremost science fiction writers in the world, gives us an exciting, evocative and thought-provoking tale where science and magic meet head-on. A group of colonists, waking every few hundred years to see what's been happening on the planet they fled to from a dying Earth, watch as the systems and rules they set in place so long ago become
debased and decayed. The corrupt leaders govern by oppression, but technological resources run low and the knowledge of how to replace them is lost in the mists of time. Instead, the power-hungry leaders turn to sorcery of the blackest kind, kindled by pain and despair. And when they
launch a religious crusade to wipe out all those who won't conform to the government's ever-more-stringent dictates, not even the original colonists - the new gods - are safe from the ravaging sorcery-fuelled armies of the righteous . . .

Review:

Annie has been interviewed for 'Time and Place' in the SUNDAY TIMES HOME section which will run shortly and an article by her for 'Confessions of a Tourist' in SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL will run in the next couple of weeks. An profile interview with Annie will appear in the July issue of WRITING MAGAZINE and shewill be interviewed for 'Authors Secrets' in WOMAN'S WEEKLY FICTION SPECIAL Reviews are due to appear in the August issue of HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW, WOMAN'S OWN and LIVING FRANCE Annie will be speaking the signing copies of her books at the Southern Writers Conference near Chichester in June Review in SOU

Book Description:

A brilliantly realised tale of oppression, science and magic on a planet where nothing is ever quite what it seems

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0575074477
• ISBN 13: 9780575074477
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416