Their mission is to find out how it is that the plague that has been reported to Sanctity, the religious government on Earth, as having spread over all other planets and killing millions has not been reported on Grass. The story revolves mostly around Marjorie Yrarier the somewhat estranged wife of the aloof and distant Rigo sent on an ambassadorial mission to the strange planet. People from the town sometimes do go in but they never come back. The elite class are somewhat of a joke among the townsfolk of the spaceport some of whom are just as wealthy as the Bons but don’t put on strange colonial airs and steer well clear of going into the grasslands.

The elite class of Grass (the Bons) go hunting on the backs of the hippie for hours and hours chasing down foxen with giant bestial hounds, lulled into a trance like state by the Hippae. The Hippae are violent spiked creatures like giant horses with no small measure of telepathic skills. A world populated by Hippae who begrudgingly share their grass covered globe with humans. There was a lot of information to take in over the first hundred pages or so and being not at all interested in horses or hunting I had to tell myself to persevere because here was a whole other world to be discovered. Initially I found the story hard going despite Tepper’s interesting way of introducing all the key characters.

I picked it up from a charity shop for a couple of quid having been drawn to it by the distinctive yellow branding on the spine, not really knowing what to expect but trusting that it would be of similar quality to the works of those other great sci-fi writers in the series. Urn:oclc:768482501 Republisher_date 20170826092711 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 358 Scandate 20170825051531 Scanner version of Grass I have is part of the Sci-fi Masterworks series by Gollancz which includes selected works from PKD, Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke etc. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:02:22.465062 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA1155920 City New York Donor

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