![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, a plague has taken hold on all the human-occupied worlds… except Grass. All three creatures are likely intelligent – certainly the hunters are not in control during the Hunt. ![]() For a start, the hounds and mounts (but never “horses”) are native species of Grass, as are their prey, the “foxen”. But this Hunt bears only a faint resemblance to the barbaric practice of chasing foxes on horseback (er, the hunters, obviously the foxes aren’t on horseback) as practised in the UK. On the eponymous world, a number of noble families live in country estates on the grassy plains, and their lives revolve around the Hunt. Tepper’s Grass is a good example of the type. There are plenty of examples, both short fiction and novels, from Marion Zimmer Bradley’s ‘The Wind People’ (1959) to Stephen Leigh’s Dark Water’s Embrace (1998), and many both between and since. There is a type of sf which is quite common, in which a group of explorers or settlers must figure out the strange ecology of an alien world – not always directly affecting them, sometimes it’s historical. So I grabbed it one weekend, and read it on-and-off over a couple of weeks. But the blurb for Grass intrigued me (or re-intrigued me), and I couldn’t remember anything of the book from my previous read (and I’m generally quite good at remembering books I’ve read). I’m not much given to rereading, and then it’s usually of books I greatly admire. This was a reread, although I last read it twenty-five years ago. ![]()
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