by Sheri S. Tepper · Ultramar · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788473866521
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«Hierba» is the science fiction novel by Sheri S. Tepper, published by Ultramar in paperback (568 pages, in Spanish).
On the planet Hierba, a vast almost virgin savanna and a semi-feudal society hide the secret of a plague ravaging the universe. Santidad sends Roderigo and Marjorie Westriding Yrarier as ambassadors to find a cure, and it will be Marjorie who uncovers the mystery of the Hunts and faces the dangerous hippae. The key may lie in the zorren, creatures whose nature will decide the survival of civilization.
Hierba is the first installment of the Arbai series, originally published as Grass and a finalist for the Hugo Award. The Spanish translation is by Albert Solé.
It is aimed at science fiction and fantasy readers who enjoy strange worlds, closed societies, and the investigation of an alien secret.
Sheri Stewart Tepper was an American writer of science fiction, horror and mystery novels. She is primarily known for her feminist science fiction, which explored themes of sociology, gender and equality, as well as theology and ecology. Often referred to as an eco-feminist of science fiction literature, Tepper personally preferred the label eco-humanist. Some of her novels fall into the category of climate fiction, in which the changing environment of a planet affects the life of its colonists in the form of a mystery to be solved; examples include Grass (1989), Beauty (1991), A Plague of Angels (1993), The Family Tree (1997), Six Moon Dance (1998), and Singer from the Sea (1999). Though the majority of her works operate in a world of fantastical imagery and metaphor, at the heart of her writing is real-world injustice and pain. She employed several pen names during her lifetime, including A. J. Orde, E. E. Horlak, and B. J. Oliphant.
