Fish Tails

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I am a big fan of Tepper's work pre-1995, unexcited by the last 10 years, and saddened by this book. They're 100% free range meat so are high in protein, are are free from added flavourings or preservatives. For those who have not read the books in this series, it is still okay to read this one as a standalone. In this dystopic world, the evil technology fiends have torn the world apart with their weapons of mass destruction and continue to do so.

It takes place in the future where we have killed the earth, then we invented machines that went on killing us. Tepper is a highly recommended fantasy novel with a message - alongside notable world building and character development. Abasio and Xulai come along, and convince people to follow them, or flee from religious fanatics offended by their mer-children. I hoped against hope that this would at least be made clear at the end, but [anti-spoiler] it's not.Sure it is strange, so for that reason I am sure you could jump right in and still understand, but to really grasp it you really must start at book 1. Tepper's thirty-fifth novel, features a handful of major characters from her very first novels published over thirty years ago. This book ties together the end of one trilogy with the triple trilogy of Lom--book one of which, as it turns out, was the first major specfic novel that Tepper actually got published.

The 12-year-old genius, Needly, acts and thinks through the voice of an 'old woman', and sure she has wisdom but that aspect is lost because 'the voice' in which her character is written is all wrong. However, there's barely a camp-making move our protagonists make that isn't described in detail, and then described to other characters in detail, so that they can describe it to other characters in detail. Some major editing might have saved this book but I can't recommend it even for fans of Sheri S Tepper.For the waters are rising and will soon engulf the entire planet, transforming it utterly and irrevocably. Everything was tied up at the end but with far too many balls of string and wax wrapping up all the loose ends, and plugging any holes. But the message is beaten to death by repetitive speeches, aimless plotting, and the telegraphed arrival of the deus ex machina ending.

I have enjoyed several other Tepper novels in the past, but am unfamiliar with the storylines continuing from A Plague of Angels and The Waters Rising. There is a way for others to have their future children resemble the twins, thus ensuring the continuation of their bloodlines.Most of this novel seems to be a road novel and consists of the main characters traveling and encountering problems as well as supportive people along the way. The True Game series starts as a fairly standard fantasy that grows more and more unique as the series progresses. She wanted to tie two of her main series together as a grand finale and resolution of the character's arcs because the thematic elements and her concerns are the same. What surprised me most about the Note, though, is what it doesn't do, which is to give any indication at all that this book was written by someone other than Sheri Tepper.