Sheri Stewart Tepper was born in 1929 in Denver, Colorado. She has two children and lives in New Mexico.

Sheri Tepper is a prolific author of Science Fiction, Horror and Mystery novels, frequently with a feminist slant. She has written under several pseudonyms: A. J. Orde, E. E. Horlak, B. J. Oliphant.

Other names: Sheri S. Eberhart

Works

Writing as Sheri S. Tepper:

The True Game series (a trilogy of trilogies) The Peter series was the first published. The Mavin series takes place earlier. The Jinian series takes place during and after the same time period as the Peter series, often giving a different perspective on the same events.

  • The Books of the True Game: Peter (Note: all three released in one omnibus edition as The True Game (1985))
    • King's Blood Four. Ace Books. 1983. (first novel)
    • Necromancer's Nine. Ace Books. 1983.
    • Wizard's Eleven. Ace Books. 1984.

  • The Books of the True Game: Mavin Manyshaped (Note: all three released in one omnibus edition as The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped (1985))
  • The Song of Mavin Manyshaped. Ace Books. 1985.
  • The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped. Ace Books. 1985.
  • The Search for Mavin Manyshaped. Ace Books. 1985.

  • The Books of the True Game: Jinian (Note: all three of these released together as The End of the Game in a book club edition)
    • Jinian Star-Eye. Tor Books. 1986.
    • Dervish Daughter Tor Books. 1986.
    • Jinian Footseer. Tor Books. 1985.

  • Mahlia / Badger (These two books are straightforward horror without even much of a feminist spin.)
    • Blood Heritage. Tor Books. 1986.
    • The Bones. Tor Books. 1987.

Short Works
  • "The Gardener" (novella). Night Visions 6. Released as The Bone Yard (1988) in mass market. (vampire story). Collaboration with F. Paul Wilson and Ray Garton.
  • "The Gazebo" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1990
  • "Someone Like You" in Martin Greenberg's The Further Adventures of the Joker (1990)
  • "Raccoon Music" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1991
  • "The Gourmet" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October/November 1991

Poetry
  • "Lullaby, 1990" (poetry) in Galaxy December 1963 as Sheri S. Eberhart
  • "Ballad of the Interstellar Merchants" (in Galaxy December 1964) as Sheri S. Eberhart

Essays / Articles
  • "Extraterrestrial Trilogue" (Galaxy, December 1960, and August 1961) as Sheri S. Eberhart

Pseudonymous Works

Writing as E. E. Horlak (horror):

  • Still Life. Bantam. 1987 / 1988.

Writing as B. J. Oliphant (mystery):

  • Shirley McClintock Mysteries Dead in the Scrub. 1990
  • The Unexpected Corpse. 1990
  • Deservedly Dead. 1992
  • Death and the Delinquent. 1993
  • Death Served Up Cold. 1994
  • A Ceremonial Death. 1996
  • Here's to the Newly Deads. 1997

Writing as A. J. Orde (mysteries featuring a Colorado antiques dealer and his SO a female cop):

  • The Jason Lynx Mysteries:
    • A Little Neighborhood Murder: A Jason Lynx Novel. 1989
    • Death and the Dogwalker: A Jason Lynx Novel. 1990
    • Dead on Sunday. 1991
    • Death for Old Time's Sake: A Jason Lynx Novel. 1992
    • Looking for the Aardvark. 1993
    • A Long Time Dead. 1995: Fawcett. 1994
    • A Death of Innocents: A Jason Lynx Novel. 1996, 1997