Sheri S Tepper Books in Order

Peter grows up in a world where power is sorted into dangerous games and inherited ranks. His own birth and abilities make him valuable to people who would rather use him than save him.

Peter moves deeper into the realm of necromancers, rival powers, and hidden lineage. The more he learns about the game, the more dangerous the board becomes.

Several unlikely travelers are forced out into a dangerous fantasy world and slowly drawn together. Old powers are waking, and saving the world may depend on people who began far apart.

Peter reaches the hardest stage of his journey as magic, politics, and the world's secret history collide. The final contest is about far more than winning.

Jinian's uncanny sight pulls her out of ordinary life and into war, travel, and the hidden workings of the True Game. She is an appealing guide through a world getting stranger by the mile.

Marianne is swept into an offbeat fantasy full of magi, monsters, and shifting loyalties. Tepper keeps the pace quick and the danger real beneath the wit.

Drawing on Irish myth, this dark fantasy follows Aonghis of the Deisi into tribal conflict, uncanny visitations, and the pull of older powers. Tepper keeps the world earthy and eerie at once.

Mavin Manyshaped, reckless, gifted, and impossible to ignore, is drawn into danger in the strange cities of the Chasm. The quest ahead is full of old mysteries, risk, and the kind of choices that change legends.

Years after her first adventures, Mavin sets out to find the missing Himmaggery. The search carries her through the dangerous lands of the True Game and toward truths bigger than either of them.

As a young shapeshifter coming into her power, Mavin flees fear and bondage for a larger, harsher world. Her meeting with the wizard Himmaggery helps set the whole True Game saga in motion.

In a harsh world ruled by old customs and older fears, blood ties bring danger as quickly as protection. Tepper mixes family drama, sacrifice, and dark magic into a tense, folkloric fantasy.

Jinian's story widens as family loyalties, dangerous journeys, and older powers collide. Tepper keeps the stakes personal even while the world around her opens into epic conflict.

The Jinian arc moves toward its end as war, magic, and buried history converge. What began with a gift of sight becomes a struggle over the shape of the whole world.

This omnibus gathers Mavin's trilogy into one volume. It traces the shapeshifter's early life, her bond with Himmaggery, and the roots of the wider True Game world.

On the planet Jubal, towering crystalline Presences shape every life and belief. As greed and fanaticism close in, people who study the crystals must uncover what they really are.

Boatman Thrasne witnesses a woman turned to wood and the birth of a strange child, then drifts into a world shaped by zealots and birdlike rulers. Tepper makes the whole thing eerie from page one.

Pamra Don helps rally Northshore against the Protector of Man and the cruelty done in his name. The strange, unsettling world opened in Northshore moves toward open reckoning here.

When ancient bones begin to rise, old terror returns with them. Families in Ettison face sacrifice, inheritance, and a horror that should have stayed buried.

This alternate-titled edition of After Long Silence returns to Jubal, where mysterious crystalline Presences inspire awe, fear, and exploitation. Tepper turns the setting into both puzzle and warning.

Centuries after catastrophe, women and warrior men live in separate but linked societies. Through Stavia, Tepper explores power, memory, and the uneasy price of peace.

Marianne faces new schemes, unreliable divinities, and the usual trouble with powerful people. It is a sly fantasy that balances mischief with genuine stakes.

Jason Lynx's quiet Denver neighborhood erupts when a bomb appears at a neighbor's door and the couple is later found murdered. The case pulls him toward buried secrets from his own past.

Marjorie Westriding Yrarier arrives on the planet Grass to learn why it alone seems immune to a devastating plague. What she finds is a world of deadly hunts, rigid ritual, and dangerous hidden truths.

The final Marianne adventure sends its practical heroine through another maze of tricks, old powers, and improbable companions. Tepper keeps it odd, fast, and fun to follow.

Trying to help a wounded deer, rancher Shirley McClintock stumbles over a human skeleton in the autumn scrub. Another killing follows, and the smell of corruption hangs over both.

Out walking dogs in a Denver park, Jason finds Fred Foret posed on a bench, very much dead. A second body turns a strange scene into a tightly wound puzzle with personal edges.

On Hobbs Land, Jeopardy and Saturday help restore an abandoned temple and wake something that looks very much like a god. Their world changes just as the brutal prophets of Voorstod close in.

A family burial goes badly wrong when too many urns arrive and graves are disturbed. Soon Shirley McClintock is sorting through relatives, ashes, and murder much too close to home.

Starting with Sleeping Beauty, Tepper sends Beauty through fairy tales, time shifts, and a darker future. It is a fierce, strange book about what old stories hide and what the world is becoming.

While traveling in New Mexico with J.Q., Allison, and a difficult teenage friend, Shirley is injured and the girl is murdered. A gold horse, a kidnapping, and stolen pottery make the puzzle wider still.

Extortion letters reopen Jason Lynx's buried questions about his own origins. As murders and old family secrets surface, he has to decide how much truth he really wants.

When a victim seems to have earned plenty of enemies, Shirley McClintock knows that only makes the truth harder to find. Ranch-country grudges and local hypocrisies make this a thorny case.

On the planet Elsewhere, Enforcers and misfits investigate dragons, net-beings, and stranger threats still. Tepper turns the mission into a big, uneasy story about freedom, control, and what evolution might cost.

In a broken future Earth where fairy-tale creatures have returned, Abasio joins Orphan against the ruthless Witch. Their fight becomes a struggle over who gets to shape the next world.

Jason goes to Santa Fe to look into the murder of a deeply disliked evangelist whose preaching left enemies everywhere. Art, family damage, and religious zeal make this one of his most uneasy cases.

Another killing drops Shirley into a tangle of old resentments, local loyalties, and secrets people hoped had cooled with time. Tepper keeps the mystery rooted in place and personality.

Jason Lynx investigates the murder of Ron Willis, Grace's brother, a man living with AIDS. A thin trail of clues, an old skeleton, and a powerful Denver family make the case far more dangerous than it first seems.

A seemingly ordinary future is threaded with hidden violence, social control, and family secrets. Tepper turns private fear into a larger question about what kind of humanity survives.

When healer Shadow Dancer is found dead while preparing for a ceremony, Shirley McClintock starts asking unwelcome questions. The answers lie somewhere between spiritual show, fear, and plain human malice.

Carolyn and the women of the Decline and Fall Club reunite in a darker near future shaped by misogyny and extremism. They may be the last barrier against something viciously old and male.

This omnibus collects the Peter trilogy, beginning with a vulnerable boy and widening into one of Tepper's richest fantasy worlds. It is the clearest doorway into the larger True Game saga.

When Jason and Grace find the remains of a girl buried beneath their new house, an old crime comes violently back to life. Digging into a wealthy Denver family's past, they uncover cruelty that never really ended.

A celebration turns deadly, and Shirley has to pick her way through fresh lies and old tensions before the damage spreads. It is a fittingly sharp final outing for her.

Police officer Dora Henry investigates murdered geneticists while sentient trees begin changing the modern world. A far-future quest runs alongside her story, slowly revealing the larger shape of the crisis.

On matriarchal Newholme, a looming disaster forces old secrets into the open. Mouche and the Great Questioner probe the world's past to decide whether its society deserves saving.

On the ocean world Haven, Genevieve is expected to obey ancient covenants and die young if necessary. Hidden male secrets and a planetary reckoning make her life part of something much larger.

Benita Alvarez-Shipton, stuck in a bad marriage, is chosen by alien envoys to bring a message of peace to a skeptical American government. Tepper mixes first contact with satire and fury.

Dismé Latimer grows up under a regime that fears questions, bottles dissent, and trades with demons for technology. As her own abilities grow, an ancient disaster begins to circle back.

Jewel Delis smuggles dogs off an overcrowded Earth to the planet Moss, where strange beings and lost histories wait. What begins as translation work opens into a much bigger mystery.

Margaret Bain discovers her life is only one thread in a much larger pattern. Her many selves may be humanity's best chance against extinction and interstellar hatred.

Long after the Big Kill, the seas are climbing and the world is failing again. Xulai, once an expendable girl, may be central to whatever hope humanity has left.

Abasio and Xulai travel a slowly drowning Earth, trying to find who and what is worth saving before the waters finish the job. The journey also uncovers the truth behind the flood.