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uppityperson

(116,027 posts) Sat Feb 11, 2017, 11:40 PM Feb 2017

Sheri Tepper died last Oct, I missed this

She was an author, feminist, exec director of Rocky Mt PP.

What with the election, I missed her death.

The Gate to Women's Country is well known, but I really liked Grass. Family Tree deals also with ecology and the natural world, is lighter read with many puns though it deals with serious issues too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper

From 1962 to 1986, she worked for Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, eventually as its executive director.

http://boingboing.net/2016/10/24/rip-science-fiction-great-sher.html

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Sheri Tepper died last Oct, I missed this (Original Post) uppityperson Feb 2017 OP

She sounds like an awesome woman. Kath2 Feb 2017 #1

I did read Grass, but none of her other novel-length works. eppur_se_muova Feb 2017 #2

thank you. I missed the news as well. niyad Feb 2017 #3

Kath2

(3,192 posts)

1. She sounds like an awesome woman.

Reply to uppityperson (Original post)

Sun Feb 12, 2017, 01:33 AM

Feb 2017

I will follow up on her writings. Thank you.

eppur_se_muova

(42,518 posts)

2. I did read Grass, but none of her other novel-length works.

Reply to uppityperson (Original post)

Sun Feb 12, 2017, 02:27 AM

Feb 2017

I'm more into hard SF, and not at all into fantasy, so none of her other works really tempted me, though I've read a few of her short stories in anthologies. Frankly, Grass was such a big, sprawling book that I had to take a reading break afterwards, and I didn't feel like picking up such a big work for quite a while afterwards.

Interesting that she was writing pamphlets for PP as far back as the Sixties. A really multitalented woman, and a bit of a pioneer.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/sheri-s-tepper-obituary/

niyad

(134,035 posts)

3. thank you. I missed the news as well.

Reply to uppityperson (Original post)

Thu Feb 16, 2017, 02:25 PM

Feb 2017

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