- Paperback: 468 pages
- Publisher: Spectra; First Printing edition (Feb 1 1987)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0553343696
- ISBN-13: 978-0553343694
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 2.5 x 21.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 839 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,223,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Have to work, but Grant is worth it.,
By dubbio1 (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: RUMORS OF SPRING (Mass Market Paperback)
I have found that with Richard Grant's books--including RUMORS OF SPRING, THROUGH THE HEART, and SARABAND OF LOST TIME--it works best if I read the first couple of chapters, set the book aside for a few months, then start again at the beginning. By then the mythos has had time to infiltrate my mind then I can go back and have fun exploring the world. The near-yet-far future settings are lovely, the character interplay delightful.I just reread RUMORS OF SPRING after originally reading it in college about 10 years ago. I enjoyed it as much if not more so than the first time. The world is intricate enough that I can focus on a character I didn't pay attention to before.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent far future fantasy tale,
By A Customer
This review is from: RUMORS OF SPRING (Mass Market Paperback)
Richard Grant can be read as a postmodern writer who just happens to negotiate within science fiction. Rumours of Spring is a postmodern science fiction tale that hints at the exploration of a postmodern environmental ethic. While slow to get started, for the dedicated reader who is willing to engage the delightful prose on its own terms, ultimately Grant's tale is a rewarding experience. In the end you to will want to be in love with Vesica and escape to the Grand Bank Forest.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A magical mystery tour of a fairy-tale future,
By A Customer
This review is from: RUMORS OF SPRING (Mass Market Paperback)
When the world's last surviving forest begins to fight back against its exterminators, a motley band of Crusaders sets out to find out why...but that's just the beginning.Although set in the future, Rumors of Spring is more fairy tale than science fiction. Richard Grant has woven the elements of fantasy, satire and mythology into a beautiful dreamscape populated by characters as complex and true-to-life as our closest friends--that is, if our friends lived in a world where owls could talk and little boys lived five hundred years. By the time you've finished this book, you'll want to live there, too.
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