Series
Marjorie Westriding
Sheri S. Tepper · 3 novels · 1989–1992
Sheri S. Tepper's Arbai Trilogy opens with Grass (1989), in which investigator Marjorie Westriding is sent to the planet Grass to learn why its aristocratic settlers, obsessed with hunting using native and unsettlingly intelligent fauna, appear immune to a plague devastating the rest of human space. Raising the Stones and Sideshow carry the trilogy's ideas forward across roughly a thousand years and more of the same future history, with Marjorie's legacy and the extinct alien Arbai continuing to shape events.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
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Stats
By decade
- 1980s1
- 1990s2
Shape
3 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionaliensother star systemsfar futuremysteriousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Sideshowdarkest
- Raising the Stonesbrightest · most intense
- Grasscalmest