Book description
What could be more innocuous than grass? Or more idyllic than a world covered with a wind-whipped ocean of verdant plains?
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 begins to reveal…
Why read it?
1 author picked Grass as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Maybe it's a hangover from Covid and what that did to the world around me, but all three of my favorite books this year were re-reads. Something drew me back to works of art that I knew I could rely on in these weirdly shifting times. I suspect I was not alone!
This novel has perhaps the most obvious links to recent times - it describes an intergalactic plague that wreaks havoc across the galaxy. Only one planet, Grass, is left untouched. A seemingly idyllic world, with a strange social structure, it hides a dark secret.
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