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Description edit
What could be more commonplace than grass, or a world covered over all its surface with a wind-whipped ocean of grass? But the planet Grass conceals horrifying secrets within its endless pastures. And as an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Marjorie: Add a description of this character.
- Brother Mainoa
- Roderigo Yrarier
- Tony
- Rillibee
- Rowena
- Stella
- Eugenie
- Hippae
- Persun
- Stavenger
- Roald Few
- Father James
- Highbones
- Joshua
- Fuasoi
- Father Sandoval
- Shoethai
- Eric Bon Haunser
- Sophy
- Lady Westriding
- Don Quixote
- Miriam
- Sebastian Mechanic
- Shevlok
- Brother Lourai
- Maukerden
- Asmir
- Gustave
- Carolyn
- Lees Bergrem
- Laupmon
- Zoe
- O'neil
- Sylvan
- Faye
- Opal Hill
- Andrea
- Steeplehands
First Sentence edit
"Grass! Millions of square miles of it; numberless wind-whipped tsunamis of grass, a thousand sun-lulled caribbeans of grass, a hundred rippling oceans, every ripple a gleam of scarlet or amber, emerald or turquoise, multicolored as rainbows, the colors shi"
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 3 in Arbai Trilogy. (standard series)
Followed by Raising the Stones.
This is book 48 of 70 in Science Fiction Masterworks. (edition-based publisher list)
Preceded by The Invisible Man, and followed by A Fall of Moondust.
This book is in Significant Speculative Fiction (Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror). (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Sheri S. Tepper (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Bantam Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1990
ISBN: 0553285653
Page Count: 480
Publisher: Bantam Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1990
ISBN: 0553285653
Page Count: 480
Awards edit
- Hugo Award (Finalist, 1990: Best Novel)
- Locus Science Fiction Award (Finalist, 1990)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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