![]() ![]() " The review traces various significant literary influences on the book, mostly non-fantastic. one of the most significant works of 1980s SF. ," and sees it as relevant to the US entry into wars in the Persian Gulf. a rabbit-hole entry into rich moral questions. Tepper has published two other books that are loosely connected, and this series is called either the Arbai series (after an extinct race of intelligent beings, found on many planets) or the Marjorie Westriding series (after the main character). The relationships and roles of males and females do enter the story. ![]() It's science fiction - speculating about what would happen if. Grass, on the other hand, isn't mostly a feminist work. ![]() One of my daughters recalls a similar experience with her work. No one has ever called me a male chauvinist pig, but some of Tepper's later work got so strongly feminist that I quit reading. ![]() I wouldn't say that Tepper is one of my favorite authors - this is my first post on her, in over 1,000 such - but she is certainly readable, and I found that there was a lot more to Grass than I remembered from my earlier reading. I was surprised that the Wikipedia article on Tepper was so sketchy, and that there is no article on Grass. Tepper is a prolific writer, and at least one of her novels ( Grass, which was published by Doubleday in 1989, and is the subject of this post - I read the paperback version.) was nominated for the Hugo award. ![]()
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