In Six Moon Dance, Sheri Tepper returns to the distant future familiar from her earlier novels. Earth is a remote ancestral memory, or a theme park exhibit; reality now embraces creatures older and wiser than the entire human race put together ! On behalf of the Council of Worlds an artificial intelligence named the Questioner examines and punishes bad behaviour towards both nonhuman species and ethnic minorities in far flung human settlements. The Questioner's attention is drawn to the small, barely industrialized world of Newholme. This is scary for the people of Newholme, especially the women who run it, who keep very big bad secrets! which will be revealed, though the Questioner is not there to uncover Newholme's crimes. Rather, the Questioner is haunted by a story she heard of an interstellar creature surviving, though mutillated, on one of the six moons of Newholme!
- ISBN10 0380791986
- ISBN13 9780380791989
- Publish Date 6 April 1999 (first published 1 August 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 13 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Avon Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 534
- Language English