![]() ![]() ![]() This trilogy is continued in the Mavin Manyshaped series and the Jinian series, collected as The End of the Game (1986). The tripartite bildungsroman concludes with a revelation of Peter's identity and his own, unforeseen Talent. ![]() Peter is forced to join the Game, and his adventure-filled quest to defeat tyranny leads him to discover the historic colonization of the planet and the reasons behind the terrible Game. Peter, who seems to have no Talents, learns otherwise when he discovers special figurines, representing the Eleven forebears of the Gamesmen, which lend him their powers. The Gamelords carelessly throw away their Gamesmen and "pawns"-unTalented farmers, traders and craftsmen-in bloody feuds. These are narrated by Peter, who grows up on another planet ruled by Game-players, who wield supernatural powers such as shape-shifting and teleportation. Her first fictional works were King's Blood Four (1983), Necromancer Nine (1983), and Wizard's Eleven (1984), later collected as The True Game (1996). ![]() She married Gene Tepper in the late 1960s. Eberhart while working for the relief agency CARE, then in 1962 launched a 24-year career in the Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, becoming executive director and writing pamphlets on topics such as sex instruction for children and self-assertiveness for young women. She sold poetry and children's stories as Sheri S. Married Gene Tepper children: one son, one daughter Born Shirley Stewart Douglas, 16 July 1929 in Colorado ![]()
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