Sideshow

Zusatztext "An  impressive performance-it combines adventure and  satire, draws engaging characters, creates a world  of wonders, and grapples with important questions  about freedom, responsibility, identify, and  destiny."-- Locus "Tepper's imaginative vision holds forth and  delivers one of her most challenging works to  date."-- Library  Journal . Informationen zum Autor Sheri S. Tepper Klappentext On the planet of Elsewhere! the Council had always enforced the governing of each province in the manner the people had chosen! so long as each respected its neighbors' local customs--and so long as the people remained within their homelands. Generations later! inhabitants have begun to question this tradition. The Council has received mysterious messages and reports of strange manifestations across the planet. Now! Enforcer Fringe Owldark has been sent with a small crew of seven! each possessing an unusual talent! to investigate their worst fear--the arrival of the Hobbs Land gods. Free will and the reality of God are just too of the timeless issues this courageous band of humans must confront as they strive to decide if complete tolerance and leaving others alone is evil. . .and what they should do if it is. Vividly imagined and exquisitely rendered! Sideshow is Sheri S. Tepper's most controversial novel yet. 1   Humanity was saved from certain destruction when, on their wedding night, Lek Korsyzczy informed his wife that their first child was to be a son. Certain intelligences (the Celerians, actually) established later that this was the event setting causation in motion. It happened at around one o’clock on an October Sunday morning during the 1990s, common era. Lek made the remark as Maria was about to get into bed with him, his voice slightly slurred from the wedding champagne, but with nothing tentative or doubtful in it to indicate that Marla had any choice in the matter.   Marla thought he sounded like a builder, like one of the customers at the lumberyard where she worked, matter-of-factly ordering framing timbers. She gave her new husband a thoughtful, rather troubled look. “Leksy, I think that just sort of happens how it happens, you know? Like my sister Judith, the one married to the plumber, she had our girls before she had Buddy.”   Leksy shrugged. His heavy shoulders were covered with large orange freckles and a pelt of fine, red-blond hair. Marla had already decided he would have to wear something with sleeves when they made love, because his fur tickled. She was sure, ticklish as she was, they would start doing it and she’d start laughing, and laughter, so her sister Judith had informed her, was never a good idea then.   “They don’t tell you how ridiculous it is,” Judith had confided in the rest room, after five glasses of champagne at the wedding supper. “The nuns sure don’t tell you. The priests don’t tell you. They go on and on about sin, but nobody says how ridiculous it is. And then there you are, doing this silly thing—oh, don’t get me wrong, it can be fun—and you start thinking what it must look like and you want to laugh, and let me tell you, don’t! That’s one time you do not want to laugh. You wouldn’t believe how bent out of shape some men can get!”   So, now, looking at the tickly pelt of hairs on Leksy’s shoulders and arms, almost to the wrists, Marla knew she’d have to take steps to avoid laughter. “I mean,” she told him, “I wouldn’t want you to get your heart set on a boy right away, or anything.”   “You don’ unnerstan’,” he told her, hiccuping slightly as he slid completely under the influence of the multiple toasts he had drunk. “I got it all work’ out with the Blessed Virgin.”   “You what?”   “I got it all work’ out.” And with these words Leksy’s eyes fell shut as his mouth opened to emit a tiny snore. It was only a raspy breath, a mere puppy gargle so far as...

Product details

• Authors: Sheri S Tepper, Sheri S. Tepper
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1993
• EAN: 9780553762891
• ISBN: 978-0-553-76289-1
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Arbai; Arbai
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy