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King's Blood Four

True Game #1 / 3
by Sheri S. Tepper
King's Blood Four (True Game #1) by Sheri S. Tepper
Unrated

Locus Award nominee 1984.

In the lands of the True Game, your lifelong identity will emerge as you play. Prince or Sorcerer, Armiger or Tragamor, Demon or Doyen...

Which will it be?

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Fantasy
Release date: 1983

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Sheri S. Tepper

Sheri Stewart Tepper (1929-2016) was an American writer of science fiction, horror and mystery novels. She was known for feminist science fiction, often with an ecofeminist slant.

She was born Shirley Stewart Douglas near Littleton, Colorado. She has written under several pseudonyms, including A. J. Orde, E. E. Horlak, and B. J. Oliphant.

Stewart recalled she "spent ten years...working all kinds of different jobs" as a single mother of two. She wrote some poetry and children's stories as Sheri S. Eberhart. From 1962 to 1986, she worked for Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, finally as Executive Director.

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By the mid-1980s, she was publishing science fiction novels, including The Revenants (1984), books of the True Game series (King’s Blood Four (1983), Necromancer Nine (1983), and Wizard’s Eleven (1984)). Other related works followed throughout the decade, including two other trilogies. Later novels in the 1990s and 2000s followed often, including Beauty (1991), which won a Locus Award; Shadow’s End (1994), Six Moon Dance (1998), Singer from the Sea (1999), The Visitor (2002), The Companions (2003), and The Margarets (2007).

As of 1998, she operated a guest ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In November 2015, she received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.

She married at 20, divorced in her late twenties. She married Gene Tepper in the late 1960s.

She died on October 22, 2016.

True Game

True Game consists of three primary books, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Main series The True Game

King's Blood Four (True Game #1)
Unrated
Necromancer Nine (True Game #2)
Unrated
Wizard's Eleven (True Game #3)
Unrated
The True Game (True Game)
★ 6.00 / 2


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