I love the way this work weaves together threads from some earlier works, and stays completely relevant to our times and the issues our world faces. In this latest one, I'm not sure if it is because I'm older and more jaded, but her social commentary came across more heavy handed. The True Game series starts as a fairly standard fantasy that grows more and more unique as the series progresses.

They can breathe air and water - in otherwords they are the hope for the future of the human race after the aquatic apocalypse. If a man seeks to kill others who believe otherwise, this action alone disproves his faith, for those who kill are not kind.I suggest you pass it by, and come back in a few years when they issue a revised (read 'edited') version. This fish is perfect for the BBQ, posh dinner party, or just a tasty home cooked supper, having a fine flavour. This book ties together the end of one trilogy with the triple trilogy of Lom--book one of which, as it turns out, was the first major specfic novel that Tepper actually got published. I enjoyed a lot of things about the story, but in the end wish that Tepper had not tried to set these last two books in the same world as A Plague of Angels. Some major editing might have saved this book but I can't recommend it even for fans of Sheri S Tepper.

Made in New Zealand, Zealandia's range of grain free snacks are ideal for use as rewards or training treats. The names of the characters in this book may be hard to remember, but their personalities are memorable. It does little good for this book to refer back to characters and plots that are far out of reach to most current Tepper readers.The editing could have been better also, the prologue is repeated verbatim a few pages in and there are lengthy dream sequences which are very repetitious. I enjoyed the idea of the remaining people on earth realizing they needed to adapt themselves to the earth rather than make the earth adapt to them. I hoped against hope that this would at least be made clear at the end, but [anti-spoiler] it's not. Xulai and Abasio begin/continue their journey spreading knowledge of the rising waters that will inevitably consume all of Earth’s land masses, and their sea children who have been specially born and bred to survive in their inevitable aquatic future, to receptive communities. Tepper does a good job in her world building and descriptions of various despicable and misogynistic groups they encounter.

That is a slight overstatement, but really the plot comes down to "people mill around until a near omnipotent alien named Fixit visits and sorts out everything. This will not be in my list of favorites with The Revenants, Grass, and The Gate to Women's Country. This may actually be to my benefit because much of the information and backstory presented in Fish Tails was new to me. This crash barrier fishtail piece is popular in carparks and pedestrian areas to protect people and vehicles from the rough ends of a crash barrier.Weird, because the connection between her The True Game series and the books in her most recent Plague of Angels trilogy seems tenuous at best. I have been reading Tepper's work for 25 years or more and am sad to learn that this is the last of her "new" work as she died in October of 2016. The philosophy is (in my view) often correct, but also inconsistent - for example, it's important to take the long view, to consider consequences, and to adapt to the environment, but a key 'good' character at one point paves a road by mistake, and essentially says 'oh well', completely disregarding the impact on the environment; also, religion is essentially a delusion perpetuated by men, but there is a Creator indifferent to humans, and we should just take that on faith; men should respect and share equally with women, and should restrain their coarse and brutish impulses, but infant boys need 'more masculine' clothing than girls; when a community has done evil, we can assume the men have done it, and the women should be rescued; evil is essentially genetic - eugenics is a good thing; evil people cannot create beauty; and, drawing on a scene in Plague of Angels referenced in this book, rape is a disgusting crime, but use drugs to do it to a man, and . However, I think she is losing her edge, a pun if you've read this book and know about 'the edgers'.