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Sheri Stewart Tepper è una scrittrice statunitense, prolifica autrice di fantascienza, fantasy, horror e gialli.

✵ 16. Luglio 1929 – 22. Ottobre 2016   •   Altri nomi Sheri Tepper
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“Il mondo fantastico nel quale mi immergo leggendo un libro per me è reale esattamente come il mondo in cui vivo… se non addirittura più reale.”

Sheri S. Tepper

p. II

“Mi piace molto scrivere gialli, perché è più divertente che faticare su un romanzo di fantascienza di grosso impegno. Quando sto lavorando a un libro di fantascienza, che mi richiede in genere un anno o anche più, be', durante quel periodo riesco sempre a infilarci almeno un paio di gialli. Sono un piacevole diversivo.”

Sheri S. Tepper

p. IV

“Il motivo per cui preferisco la fantascienza o la narrativa speculativa è perché riesce a gettare nuova luce sulla condizione umana. […] Proiettare la nostra condizione cento o cinquecento anni nel futuro, introducendo qualche elemento strano ed esotico, significa gettarvi sopra un fascio di luce, cosicché è possibile osservarla più chiaramente di quanto di possa fare oggi, descrivendola in maniera altrimenti impossibile, pur rimanendo vicini alla realtà del mondo odierno.”

Sheri S. Tepper

p. V

“Una delle cose che più amo della letteratura speculativa è il fatto che sia aperta a nuove possibilità, cioè non si limita semplicemente ad accettare dei dati di fatto. Nei normali romanzi […] nulla cambia. Alla fine c'è una sorta di catarsi e anche di indulgenza. Ma non è sufficiente, perché dovremmo invece essere in grado di cambiare il nostro modo di essere, cioè riuscire ad andare al di là di questo genere di cose.”

Sheri S. Tepper

p. V

“Sono sempre stata contraria fin da giovanissima al fatto che le differenze tra le varie religioni vengano usate per soggiogare la gente. Gran parte delle coercizioni a scapito delle donne o di altre razze vengono esercitate con l'autorità che deriva da un potere religioso, e nei miei libri parlo proprio di questo. Usiamo linguaggi e modi di pensare diversi, usiamo la religione, il nazionalismo, la storia, per trovare motivi di divisione fra noi, diventando a nostro modo dei terroristi, contro i nostri figli, contro gli amici o i vicini. Credo sia un vero peccato.”

Sheri S. Tepper

pp. V-VI

“A tredici anni, avevo già letto la Bibbia da cima a fondo cinque o sei volte. Era come leggere fantasy, perché lì veniva descritto un altro mondo e un altro sistema di pensiero che mi era del tutto estraneo.”

Sheri S. Tepper

p. VI

“Non sono atea e non sarei affatto sorpresa di scoprire che vi sia stata una Causa Prima o un'intelligenza guida nell'universo, ma se anche così fosse, è fondamentalmente inconoscibile. Nessun visionario sulla Terra è in grado di fornirmi una descrizione accurata di questa entità o spiegarmi che cosa vuole che io faccia, perché se mi trovo qui per uno scopo, be', vorrei scoprirlo personalmente. Tutti i miei libri parlano di questo tema fondamentale, cioè parlano di religione, di gente che cerca la propria strada.”

Sheri S. Tepper

p. VI

Sheri S. Tepper: Frasi in inglese

“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

Origine: 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

Origine: 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

Origine: 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

Origine: 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

Origine: 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

Origine: 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

Origine: 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

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

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

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Origine: 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

Origine: 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

Origine: 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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Origine: 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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Origine: 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

Origine: 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

Origine: 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

Origine: 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

Origine: 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

Origine: 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

Origine: 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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Origine: 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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Origine: 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

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

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