It’s not a terrible idea, although Marjorie soon notices some subtle differences between the old hunting cultures of old England and of Grass. They are selected because officials hope that their equestrian background will endear them to the bons. Marjorie Westriding Yrarier and her estranged husband Rigo are tapped to take a closer look at Grass. While the theocrats of Sanctity are comfortable with the idea of a mass cull, particularly of heretics, heathens, and non-believers, they would just as soon not see humanity, including themselves, go extinct. This not-officially-acknowledged disease seems likely to wipe out the entire human race 1. Not much to attract off-world visitors, particularly in an era when the dominant Great Power, Earth-based Sanctity, sees colonies as hotbeds of apostasy and chaos.īut it is of some interest that Grass seems to be the only world where people do not die of a mysterious plague. There are the bons, self-styled aristocrats, obsessed with hunting and indifferent to the outside world there are the port city Commoner Town and the friary of Green Brothers. Comparatively few humans call Grass home. Grass is the first volume in Tepper’s Arbai trilogy it is set on the planet after which the novel is named. I apologize if the result isn’t quite what they expected. Why read it now? Someone commissioned this review. Not even the 1991 Hugo nomination was enough to tempt me. Tepper, which is why I’ve only now read her 1990 novel, Grass.
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