Mavin Manyshaped
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Mavin Manyshaped is a shapeshifter
within a series of nine novels written by Sheri S. Tepper
that are collectively known as The True Game
. The three novels telling the earliest part of the story focus on Mavin and are told principally from her point of view
.
Books in the Mavin series:
All three stories were subsequently collected into a one-volume edition: The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped (1985).
The Song of Mavin Manyshaped starts the series out with Mavin as a girl within her shifter community of Danderbat Keep. Within the keep, there is a distinct shortage of females shifters of childbearing age and Mavin is about to come of age. In the first book, she escapes from the keep, meets for the first time a young wizard who will play a large role in subsequent stories, and vanquishes an evil community. At the end of the book, she and the wizard must separate, but they promise to meet again in twenty years.
The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped traces a much-older Mavin as she searches for her sister, another shifter who escaped from Danderbat Keep. Mavin finds her way to a very unusual community built within a rocky chasm and there finds her sister.
The Search of Mavin Manyshaped, the final book in the Mavin series, places us twenty years from the time of the first book as Mavin returns to find the wizard she parted from so long ago. When he doesn't show up, she sets off in search of him.
Although set in earlier times than the Peter and Jinian trilogies that complete The True Game, the Mavin trilogy was written after Peter and so is able to take advantage of the larger back-story that Tepper was devising about the planet that houses the entire series. The series (and the back-story) reach fruition in the Jinian trilogy.
ShapeShifter
ShapeShifter is an Application Enhancer plugin for Mac OS X developed by Unsanity that allows the user to make system-wide modifications to the appearance of the operating system's graphical interface by applying GUI skins through “injection” into running code and without modifying system files,...
within a series of nine novels written by Sheri S. Tepper
Sheri S. Tepper
Sheri Stewart Tepper is an American author of science fiction, horror and mystery novels; she is particularly known as a feminist science fiction writer, often with an ecofeminist slant....
that are collectively known as The True Game
The True Game
The True Game is the collective name for a series of three related trilogies of short novels by Sheri S. Tepper. The novels explore the Lands of the True Game, a portion of a planet explored by humanity somewhere in the future...
. The three novels telling the earliest part of the story focus on Mavin and are told principally from her point of view
Perspective (cognitive)
Perspective in theory of cognition is the choice of a context or a reference from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience, cohesively forming a coherent belief, typically for comparing with another...
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Books in the Mavin series:
- The Song of Mavin Manyshaped (Ace Books, 1985)
- The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped (Ace Books, 1985)
- The Search of Mavin Manyshaped (Ace Books, 1985)
All three stories were subsequently collected into a one-volume edition: The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped (1985).
The Song of Mavin Manyshaped starts the series out with Mavin as a girl within her shifter community of Danderbat Keep. Within the keep, there is a distinct shortage of females shifters of childbearing age and Mavin is about to come of age. In the first book, she escapes from the keep, meets for the first time a young wizard who will play a large role in subsequent stories, and vanquishes an evil community. At the end of the book, she and the wizard must separate, but they promise to meet again in twenty years.
The Flight of Mavin Manyshaped traces a much-older Mavin as she searches for her sister, another shifter who escaped from Danderbat Keep. Mavin finds her way to a very unusual community built within a rocky chasm and there finds her sister.
The Search of Mavin Manyshaped, the final book in the Mavin series, places us twenty years from the time of the first book as Mavin returns to find the wizard she parted from so long ago. When he doesn't show up, she sets off in search of him.
Although set in earlier times than the Peter and Jinian trilogies that complete The True Game, the Mavin trilogy was written after Peter and so is able to take advantage of the larger back-story that Tepper was devising about the planet that houses the entire series. The series (and the back-story) reach fruition in the Jinian trilogy.