Raising the Stones (Gollancz S.F.) (Paperback)

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From Publishers Weekly

Sure to enhance Tepper's growing reputation, this imaginative novel is set in man's distant future among a number of human cultures inhabiting a distant solar system. On the recently colonized agricultural world of Hobbs Land, the aborigines and their god have died, leaving a few temples and villages. The children of the matriarchal Settlement One, including teenagers Jeopardy Wilm and his cousin and sweetheart, Saturday, begin to act strangely; they restore an old temple and place a new god inside. As quarrelsomeness and strife disappear, clear thinking prevails and worship of the new god spreads to other settlements, the fanatic, patriarchal prophets of Voorstod on the planet Ahabar seek to impose their brutal, slave-owning society on the whole system. For propaganda, they try to lure back from Hobbs Land famous singer Maire Girat, Jeopardy's grandmother, who had fled Voorstod years before. Tepper ( Grass ) builds strange rich worlds with distinct cultures breathing their own realities; among her many interwoven themes is the relationship between men and women and the societies each dominates.
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From Library Journal

A young man's obsession with the long- forgotten age of heroes and legends threatens to upset the delicate balance of a future world concerned only with peace and stability in the latest novel by the author of The Gate to Women's Country and Grass (LJ 4/15/89) . Tepper continues to explore the social implications of human progress as her characters struggle with religious conflicts and their own instincts for violence. Recommended.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Gollancz (November 14, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1857983254
• ISBN-13: 978-1857983258
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,778,986 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Lucky Find, April 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Raising the Stones (Hardcover)

A few years ago I wandered into my local newsagent to buy a paper, and thought I'd check out their bookshelf. A book caught my eye for the simple reason of its having a yellow cover. I picked it up, read the blurb on the back, and figured I may as well buy it. Well, I was hooked within two paragraphs! This book has every thing-- love, hate, gods, monstrous evil, sacrifice, redempton, miracles. Sheri S. Tepper writes a prose so lovely it can make you cry, her characters are 'real' people.... in fact, the only complaint I have is that her books come to an end. But then even the endings are satisfying, so what can I do but go and buy another? Read "Raising The Stones", read anything that has Sheri S. Tepper's name on the cover!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favourite book - one I recommend to friends, April 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Raising the Stones (Mass Market Paperback)

If you enjoy Sheri Tepper's work, you should love this book. It deals with religion in an educated, yet satirical manner. An excellent read, and quite uplifting. I lend it out so often I live in fear of losing track of my copy.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What would happen if there were a "God" that really worked?, March 12, 1998

By	D. Plice (Chicago) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Raising the Stones (Hardcover)

A great story that toys with the ideas of religion and personal freedom.