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Es autora de numerosas novelas de ciencia ficción, con un trasfondo feminista y ecológico. Nació el 16 de julio de 1929 en Denver, Colorado. Ha publicado con diversos seudónimos como A. J. Orde, E. E. Horlak, and B. J. Oliphant y más recientemente con el nombre de Sheri S. Eberhart.

Algunas de sus novelas traducidas al español:

La Bella durmiente

Hierba

El Árbol familiar

Tras el largo silencio

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✵ 16. julio 1929 – 22. octubre 2016   •   Otros nombres Sheri Tepper
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Frases célebres de Sheri S. Tepper

“Me dijeron que las verdades eternas…

—¿Cómo cuáles —Dios se rió—. ¡Si hubiera alguna verdad eterna Yo lo sabría ¡He creado todo un cosmos basado en el cambio y un ser minúsculo viene aquí para hablarme de verdades eternas

—No quería ofenderte. Es sólo que… Bueno sí no hay verdades eternas ¿cómo podemos saber dónde está la verdad

—No me has ofendido. Nunca creo cosas capaces de ofenderme. En cuanto a la verdad la verdad es lo que está escrito. Todas las cosas de la creación llevan mis intenciones escritas en sí mismas. Las rocas las estrellas los seres minúsculos… Para cada cosa sólo hay un camino natural el camino que Yo he concebido para ella. El problema es que los seres minúsculos escriben libros que contradicen a las rocas y luego dicen que Yo escribí los libros y que las rocas son mentiras. —Se rió. El universo tembló—. Inventan reglas de conducta que ni los ángeles pueden obedecer y dicen que Yo las he ideado. El orgullo de la autoría… —Dejó escapar una risita—. Dicen: «Oh estas palabras son eternas así que deben de haber sido escritas por Dios».”

Sheri S. Tepper libro Grass

Grass

“Existe el jardín. Y existe la cizaña. ¡Y a menos que seas despiadado, la cizaña siempre gana!”

Sheri S. Tepper

The Family Tree

“Decirle a la gente lo que realmente piensas es a menudo una idea malísima. Como solía decir la abuela, la gente sensata vierte aceite en aguas revueltas, no nitroglicerina.”

Sheri S. Tepper

The Family Tree

“Dzilobommo considera el efecto de su comida en los comensales como un pintor considera el efecto de su cuadro sobre un observador.”

Sheri S. Tepper

The Family Tree

“Si una cosa he aprendido, sin duda, es que la vida no es un cuento.”

Sheri S. Tepper

The Family Tree

Sheri S. Tepper: Frases en inglés

“The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro Beauty

Fuente: Beauty

“We have several races of beings that speak on this one planet. We have many and varying types of intelligence on this one planet. Therefore, tendencies that encourage intelligence, language, and a continuing search for information may very well be in accordance with the purpose of the universe.
And contrariwise, all systems that discourage intelligence, language, and a continuing search for information are anti-existence, death-dealing, and evil.”

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Strange Horizons interview (2008)

“Time past was nothing, no matter how long. Time ahead was everything, no matter how brief.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro Grass

Fuente: Grass (1989), Chapter 17 (p. 385)

“The space began to move around them as the being on her plinth receded. The splintered world hurtled toward them as though they were in a kaleidoscope, images whirling to join, spinning outward to disintegrate, vortices of jagged light, horizons of endless time, pinwheels of splendor that rushed at them and receded through which they heard the small god cry, "You will not see me soon again. It is not fitting that gods, however small, consort casually with their servants. I leave you as Guardians for all that live on this world."”

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The small god in Ch. 44 : the visitor (p. 465)
The Visitor (2002)

“I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.”

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The small god in Ch. 44 : the visitor
The Visitor (2002)

“We have a saying, we travelers: ‘For a man’s business, go to your troupe leader; for a woman’s business, go to Women’s Country. For a fool’s business, go to the warriors.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro The Gate to Women's Country

Fuente: The Gate to Women's Country (1988), Chapter 16 (p. 173)

“If God is truly powerful, He would not let this plague go on.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro Grass

Fuente: Grass (1989), Chapter 11 (p. 208)

“Rich people didn’t get in that kind of mess. They never had. Only the poor got trapped: by ignorance, by religion, by self-righteous laws passed by people who broke them with impunity.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro Grass

Fuente: Grass (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 32)

“The extent of my ignorance oppresses me.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro The Gate to Women's Country

Fuente: The Gate to Women's Country (1988), Chapter 16 (p. 171)

“The first thing you’ve got to do is tell yourself that the shitheads are wrong…Not just a little bit wrong, but irremediably, absolutely, and endemically wrong. Nothing you can say or do will stop their being wrong. They’re damned to eternal wrongness, and that’s God’s will.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro Grass

Fuente: Grass (1989), Chapter 7 (pp. 140-141)

“She was trying to feel philosophical about dying, not managing it, trying not to be frightened, and not managing that, either.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro Grass

Fuente: Grass (1989), Chapter 17 (p. 388)

“What’s coming is reality. Politics has nothing to do with reality!”

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Fuente: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 14 (p. 269)

“Honor is only a label they use for what they want you to do, Chernon. They want you to stay, so they call staying honorable.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro The Gate to Women's Country

Fuente: The Gate to Women's Country (1988), Chapter 14 (p. 149)

“We obey orders, and we don’t ask if the officer is crazy or not!”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro The Gate to Women's Country

Fuente: The Gate to Women's Country (1988), Chapter 8 (p. 75)

“Fear needn’t be grounded in fact to cause problems.”

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Fuente: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 9 (p. 153)

“Another window to the outside opened on the first day of school, when an eager young teacher told the class they could find out anything in the world if they paid attention and learned to read. To Jake it came as a revelation, the missing piece of the puzzle of his life! Here was the secret of existence he had known must be somewhere! All the mysteries of his existence would come clear, all the things he wondered about, if he would only learn to read. He did learn, quickly, passionately, with the ardor many boys reserve for sports.”

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Fuente: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 2 (pp. 44-45)

“Creation has the truth written all over it — the age of the universe, the history of the world — but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.”

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The small god in Ch. 44 : the visitor
The Visitor (2002)

“The one sure part of every plan is that it will be set awry.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro The Gate to Women's Country

Fuente: The Gate to Women's Country (1988), Chapter 15 (p. 165)

“Those of us from Chasm started calling it the Visitor because that's a relatively comfortable label. It implies the stay is temporary, that the thing will go away. We think the Visitor must be part of a race of beings who live in space, though we're guessing at that. We also postulate that they hitch rides on bits of space trash that are moving somewhere, like the huge one that came at us. Anyhow, the Visitor is getting closer by the day.”

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Wolf in Ch. 37 : leaving bastion (p. 353)
The Visitor (2002)

“To Sylvan truth was truth and all else was black heresy, though on occasion he had the very human difficulty of deciding which was which.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro Grass

Fuente: Grass (1989), Chapter 2 (p. 7)

“History upon Terra tells us what horrors follow upon religious mandates of unlimited reproduction.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro Grass

Fuente: Grass (1989), Chapter 12 (p. 250)

““Show yourselves,” cried Stephon. “Only cowards hide in the dark.”
“Cowards do many things,” said the voice. “Cowards kill their Commanders and make it look like a bandit attack. Cowards plot in secret. Cowards breed insurrection. Cowards plan the abuse of women.””

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Sheri S. Tepper libro The Gate to Women's Country

Fuente: The Gate to Women's Country (1988), Chapter 34 (p. 302)

“They see things; they overhear things; they tell us. We put two and two together to make forty-four, when we must.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro Grass

Fuente: Grass (1989), Chapter 7 (p. 115)

“Look at Mother Teresa. She spent her whole life being holy. She didn't benefit anyone in any real sense. She didn't work on stopping disease, helping poverty, doing anything that would relieve the condition of her countrymen. She just went around the city, picked up dying people, and took care of them while they died. It was a good thing, no doubt, but it meant no betterment, no progress, no help, no relief from pain. She longed to be holy. She wanted to be a saint. Now she's a saint.
Salk isn't a saint. But he did more for the human race than Mother Teresa did. He didn't long to be holy, which meant having faith, not asking questions, doing something unpleasant without thought or complaint. He longed to do good, which meant finding things out, asking hard questions, and thinking hard, deep thoughts. Goodness and holiness are two different things, unfortunately.”

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Strange Horizons interview (2008)

““Not hunting today, sir?” asked Tony in his most innocent voice, busy putting two and two together but not sure how he felt about the resultant sum.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro Grass

Fuente: Grass (1989), Chapter 11 (p. 235)

“They looked like men. That was the trouble with devils, Carolyn thought. Too often they looked like men.”

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Fuente: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 20 (p. 449)

“We are to be needed, but I'm not sure for what.”

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Guardian Camwar in Ch. 4 : the cooper (p. 42)
The Visitor (2002)

“Infanticide and infant neglect exist in inverse ratio to the accessibility of abortion services.”

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Fuente: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 10 (p. 173)

“All kids think some other family is perfect.”

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Sheri S. Tepper libro Grass

Fuente: Grass (1989), Chapter 6 (p. 103)

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