Sheri S. Tepper

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. As an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets except this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets - and nothing will ever be the same again......

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. As an incurable plague attacks all inhabited planets but this one, the prairie-like Grass begins to reveal these secrets — and nothing will ever be the same again......

The Gate to Women's Country tells of a society that exists three hundred years after our own has nearly destroyed itself. Now, male warriors are separated from women at an early age and live in garrisons, plotting futilely for the battles which must never be fought again. Inside the women's towns, education, arts, and science flourish. But for some like...

A moving, compulsive science fiction novel from one of the best writers in the field When the human settlers arrived on Hobbs Land, the native intelligent species, the Owlbrit, were already almost extinct. Before the last one died, a few years later, the humans had learned a little of their language, their ideas and their religion. It seemed the natural...