About the Book
Hugo Award nominee 1990, Locus Award nominee 1990.
Here is a novel as original as the breathtaking, unspoiled world for
which it is named, a place where all appears to be in idyllic balance.
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...
Now, a deadly plague is spreading across the stars. No world save Grass
has been left untouched. Marjorie Westriding Yrarier has been sent from
Earth to discover the secret of the planet's immunity. Amid the alien
social structure and strange life-forms of Grass, Lady Westriding
unravels the planet's mysteries to find a truth so shattering it could
mean the end of life itself.