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  <title><![CDATA[Grass]]></title>
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  <default-description>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. And 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 . . .</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1989</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sheri S. Tepper]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A family of ambassadors comes to the planet Grass, inhabited by isolated, rural aristrocrat families and one large commoner town, to figure out why it's the only human-inhabited planet where people are dying of plague.  Really great human-alien interaction as well as between humans of extremely diff...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4388309">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once again, I am not a fan of Science fiction, but the blurb about this book intrigued me. Generations in the future, when humanity has spread to other planets and Earth is ruled by Sanctity, a religion that looks to resurrection of the body by storing cell samples of its communicants, a plague is t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3994692">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite science fiction books in recent years, this intricately plotted book creates a complete world and is utterly absorbing.  Tepper reminds me a bit of another favorite woman sci-fi author, C.J. Cherryh, in that she takes a somewhat anthropological approach to the alien societies she ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3991983">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a friend who was literally scared off by another of Tepper's books, and I can see why. This book is dark and, yes, scary, in a very human way. It takes on religion and faith (not necessarily the same thing) as essential questions, and answers them in ways that I ended up likely immensely. Whi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14261153">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61559328">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In her Pern novels, Anne McCaffrey introduced readers to telepathic dragons who bond psychically with humans. In her Valdemar series, Mercedes Lackey introduced readers to telepathic horses who bond psychically with humans. In <em>Grass</em> Sherri S. Tepper plays on the same theme, introducing telepathic fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61559328">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38107497">
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 05 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excerpt from the back cover:<br/><br/>Generations ago, humans fled to the cosmic anomaly known as Grass. Over time they evolved a new and intricate society. But before humanity arrived another species had already claimed Grass for its own. It, too, had developed a culture....<br/>Now a deadly pla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38107497">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I'm a science fiction freak so of course I loved this book. I only treat myself to scifi once in a while because I get so into it I ignore other things in my life that I should be doing. This book was no exception...I read it very quickly because I enjoyed it so much. Some of the concepts were...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44506994">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Grass within a couple of years after I read The Gate to Women's Country. It is, once again, a science fiction novel with a great mystery guiding the action. <br/>This book is more highly reviewed than any of Tepper's other books. It is intriguing, and it is one of the books that I like to rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26683788">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sanctity (a thiny disguised Mormon church) is ruling the universe with an iron fist, a deadly plague is spreading everywhere, and the Westriding family has been sent as ambassadors to the only planet where people aren't getting sick to see if they can find out what's going on. They are told that the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1708441">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18423332">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was hoping more from this book that what I got.  The story is good, though predictable here and there.  The characters are poorly developed and shallow, save for one or two.  The narration drove me up the wall.  For example, after an encounter where a character has decided to remain ignorant rathe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18423332">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53350965">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book deals with multiple subjects in a highly entertaining and compelling manner.  Religion, gender, good and evil, guilt as motivation, man's relationship with companion animals and with God all intertwine in this densely-written, deliciously detailed novel about a family of Old Catholics in a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53350965">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65178002">
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    <body><![CDATA[A suspenseful, planet-hopping, incredibly complicated mystery story of sorts.  I really enjoyed how Tepper communicated the odd class dynamics of the family moving to a new planet, and new society, and intermingled those dynamics while unfolding a really compelling search for answers about the stran...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65178002">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73475487">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most original sci-fi novels I've read in a long time. The female lead is heroic without falling into that grating, &quot;spunky,&quot; tough as nails,tank-top wearing cliche. <em>Grass</em> takes an non-cynical philosophical approach towards Catholicism without being preachy and dogmatic. Horrific...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73475487">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64493322">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books ever.  I love the main character as a healer that travels across the world with her snakes -- she uses their venom to help people.  Her smallest snake, Grass, is killed by a terrified person.  So, she must travel to replace the snake.  Beautifully told story, with ex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64493322">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37807996">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting sci-fi book, which I didn't know that at first so the beginning was a little confusing. The story is about a planet where the plague hasn't spread and so a religious group is trying to figure out why. It turns out this planet has some very strange but intelligent creatures on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37807996">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For a Science Fiction class. I skimmed a lot of it, just because I was on deadline to finish, but I liked what I read. Basically, there's some almost-bestiality going on and a whole lot of alien cunnilingus. Our teacher chose all the SF books with the weird sex scenes. (Or are they all like that?)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The creativity is amazing with seemingly a new and grand idea in every chapter.  And the way Tepper brings it all together while keeping the humanity of her characters foremost is masterful.  I highly recommend this book for anyone who says Science Fiction is too technical or not enough character-ba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53539864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ever since reading her wonderful Marianne series, Grass had been on my to-be-read list. However, for some reason, everytime I picked it up I would end up buying something else. <br/>Finally a visitor to my site recommended it to me and I figured now was the time. I'm glad I read it.<br/>I love nov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14180849">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Damn it . . . Can't you see that theoretical answers are no answers at all!  It has to be something you can <em>do</em>!&quot; <br/><br/>I know this isn't really a review, but I just loved this.  I quite often feel this way.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rather liked this. Didn't have such in-your-face right-on-ness as some Tepper books.<br/><br/>There's an incurable plague afoot in the universe. Something odd seems to be going on on Grass. Are the two connected?]]></body>
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