As forests drown, swamps become lakes, and roads disappear, houses whole towns are hitched to teams of oxen and moved upward. Curses are being laid…Īnd the waters are rising as never before. In the west, the people of Norland live in small kingdoms, unaware that a hideous evil from ages past has been revived. Since then mountains have risen, deserts have fallen, the last of humankind has scattered myth, superstition, and legend have replaced knowledge and the great waters rising are changing the world. Long ago was the Big Kill, a time when the slaughterers walked the earth unseen, killing, departing, returning to kill again and again. The Waters Rising is her most ambitious and imaginative novel to date, a compelling saga of magic and science, intrigue and turmoil, war and peace, survival and extinction. Tepper creates bold tales, set in future societies, that offer provocative insights into our own world. Tepper returns with a stunning novel in which a dreadful, awesome, killing power is resurrected from the past…Īnd only a dying woman, a child, and a man who has come to help them can prevent humanity’s extinction The Waters Rising She is ‘one of sf’s most distinctive voices’ Locus a writer who ‘excels at surprises’ Oklahoma City Oklahoman and ‘takes the mental risks that are the lifeblood of science fiction and all imaginative fiction’ Ursula K.
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