RUMORS OF SPRING - Softcover

Richard Grant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553266489 ISBN 13: 9780553266481

Publisher: Spectra, 1988

Synopsis

The world faces an unexpected threat, when the only remaining forest begins growing larger and larger in an effort to reclaim the world

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Years of neglect and environmental poisoning come close to killing off the world's forests, which are forced by this crisis to evolve into a new form: sentient, thriving on industrial waste and capable of unnatural growth. When their resurgence threatens to engulf entire towns, the First Biotic Crusade travels to the isolated lab where botanist Amy Hayata had first studied the phenomenon 500 years before. Despite themselves, this ragtag group of scientists, politicians, revolutionaries and runaways finds Amy's records and chances on the secret of the wood. To an ecological polemic along the lines of Ursula Le Guin, Grant adds antic characters and bittersweet whimsy recalling J. P. Donleavy. Overall, rather too thin and wistful for its ambitions and length.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Spectra
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0553266489
• ISBN 13: 9780553266481
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 458