Monday, April 11, 2005
book sixteen
Grass
by Sheri S. Tepper
This is the second Sheri S. Tepper book I've read... and I really liked it. Not quite as much as The Gate to Women's Country, but I still found it hard to put down.
The book is set on a planet called Grass which is covered with, well, you know. The people who live on Grass came from Earth many generations ago, and have developed their own culture with its own eccentricities. The populace is divided up into aristocrats who live on large country estates, and commoners who live either in villages on the estates or in the one city on the planet. The aristocrats participate in mysterious hunts, mounted on native creatures. Mysterious events seem to happen in connection with these hunts - injuries, disappearances...
The story is driven by the arrival of an ambassador and his family from Earth. They have been sent to Grass to try to find a cure for a plague that is devastating the human race on all other planets.
I'm beginning to catch on to the subjects that Tepper likes to explore. In this book, gender roles and religion again rise to the forefront, with a nice helping of racial issues and ecology on the side. I don't mean that in a negative way - I think she has an interesting take on things, and is more than capable of writing an imaginary, engaging story along with the capital-I Issues.
by Sheri S. Tepper
This is the second Sheri S. Tepper book I've read... and I really liked it. Not quite as much as The Gate to Women's Country, but I still found it hard to put down.
The book is set on a planet called Grass which is covered with, well, you know. The people who live on Grass came from Earth many generations ago, and have developed their own culture with its own eccentricities. The populace is divided up into aristocrats who live on large country estates, and commoners who live either in villages on the estates or in the one city on the planet. The aristocrats participate in mysterious hunts, mounted on native creatures. Mysterious events seem to happen in connection with these hunts - injuries, disappearances...
The story is driven by the arrival of an ambassador and his family from Earth. They have been sent to Grass to try to find a cure for a plague that is devastating the human race on all other planets.
I'm beginning to catch on to the subjects that Tepper likes to explore. In this book, gender roles and religion again rise to the forefront, with a nice helping of racial issues and ecology on the side. I don't mean that in a negative way - I think she has an interesting take on things, and is more than capable of writing an imaginary, engaging story along with the capital-I Issues.
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