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True Game (Paperback)

by Sheri Tepper (Author) "TOTEM TO KING'S BLOOD FOUR." The moment I said it, I knew it was wrong ..." (more)
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Gathers the acclaimed author's science-fiction trilogy, encompassing King's Blood Four, Necromancer Nine, and Wizard's Eleven, stories that helped to ignite the Dungeons and Dragons gaming fad.
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5.0 out of 5 stars What Happened to Tepper?, April 22 2004
By Theodore H Voth Jr (Madison, Wisconsin United States) - See all my reviews
This is Tepper's best work; she spins a fantastic world. Her writing here is what I think of as 'archetypal'. Like Adams' work in Watership Down or Tolkien's in Middle-Earth; and to mention a fave of mine whom I'm apparently the only one to've read, Eddison's Zimiamvia. What these three preeminently share, and in the case of Tepper's Marianne and World of the True Game trilogies, incl Mavin Many-Shaped (The Revenants and The Awakeners were good too.) she shares with them, is the ability to write as if they were creating folk-lore. It strikes right at the heart. She's brilliant, here.

Since she's gotten to be a 'serious author' she's gotten so D----d preachy and didactic, always grinding one axe or another. Her later stuff has been a real disappointment; I can't even read it. I personally believe she's wasting her obviously great talents.

I labored through her some of her later stuff out of loyalty, but bogged down in Sideshow. (incidentally it's genetically impossible to have conjoined male and female twins.)

Yes, the great master Robert Heinlein, preached; but he got away with it by putting his sermons in the mouths of memorable characters-- admittedly all alter egos of Robert Heinlein. His sermons are art. Tepper's are merely dogmatic PC rant and cant.

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4.0 out of 5 stars I was pleasantly surprised, April 22 2004
By "breathingmeat" (Auckland New Zealand) - See all my reviews
Being used to Tepper's more recent works, I found this book quite different as I was beginning it. It looked like a more 'pure' sort of fantasy, with elements of RPG gaming thrown in. However, as I got into the book, I quickly found myself surrounded by the familiar Tepper devices - children in cruel institutions, crossover into science fiction, genuinely disturbing monsters and bold political parody.

What I found refreshing about it was the relative lack of some of Tepper's more excessive qualities. Her recent work is often criticised for its rather blunt allegories, and consistently boorish characterisations of men. While these things are fun in their place, it is nice to see that Tepper can write without them. In particular, the male characters in The True Game are well crafted, and some of them are very likeable. Knowing that Tepper can do these things well when she chooses to gives me more respect for her as a writer.

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