by Sheri S. Tepper · Bantam Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9780002246507
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«Gibbon's Decline and Fall» is the science fiction and fantasy novel by Sheri S. Tepper, published by Bantam Books in hardback (500 pages, in English).
In a society shaken by fundamentalism, Carolyn Crespin, a retired former lawyer, defends a teenager who abandoned her baby. To do so, she gathers five college friends bound by a pact of loyalty and seeks Sophy, the sixth of the group, whom they all believed dead. The novel combines social criticism and dystopian speculation.
Novel published in 1996 and nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1997, as well as appearing on the longlist for the James Tiptree Jr. Award in 1996.
A read for those seeking science fiction and fantasy with a backdrop of social criticism and a feminist perspective.
Sheri Stewart Tepper was an American writer of science fiction, horror and mystery novels. She is primarily known for her feminist science fiction, which explored themes of sociology, gender and equality, as well as theology and ecology. Often referred to as an eco-feminist of science fiction literature, Tepper personally preferred the label eco-humanist. Some of her novels fall into the category of climate fiction, in which the changing environment of a planet affects the life of its colonists in the form of a mystery to be solved; examples include Grass (1989), Beauty (1991), A Plague of Angels (1993), The Family Tree (1997), Six Moon Dance (1998), and Singer from the Sea (1999). Though the majority of her works operate in a world of fantastical imagery and metaphor, at the heart of her writing is real-world injustice and pain. She employed several pen names during her lifetime, including A. J. Orde, E. E. Horlak, and B. J. Oliphant.
