Grass was a short story published in the September 2001 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, making it the first published entry in the Faction Paradox spin-off series, discounting the original printing of Dead Romance itself as a Virgin New Adventures novel. It was subsequently reprinted in Mad Norwegian Press' reprinting of Dead Romance as an explicit entry in the Faction Paradox series.
Publisher's summary[]
Grass marks Lawrence Miles's first appearance in our pages, although he notes that he has previously published work in various anthologies, magazines, comic books, and computer games. His recent work includes a board game concerning Imperial Rome.
Grass ruminates on American history and what might have been…
Plot[]
to be added
Characters[]
- Lucia Cailloux
- Broken Nose
- Thomas Jefferson
- Meriwether Lewis
- William Clark
Worldbuilding[]
to be added
Notes[]
- The story is most notable to the wider Faction Paradox mythos for the first mention of George III's mammoth.
- Miles cited Damon Runyan as an influence on this story.[1]
- Grass won Best Non-Who Prose Fiction in the 2001 Jade Pagoda mailing list awards.[2]
Continuity[]
- Catherine II's gift of a mammoth to George III is mentioned. (COMIC: Political Animals, PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)
- Jefferson's expedition to find mammoths in the American midwest is mentioned in PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street.
- PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet previously established that the French Shadow Directory uses the term "Caillou" to denote individuals around whom world itself would shift and buckle.
Footnotes[]
- ↑ This Town interview
- ↑ Jade Pagoda awards (2008). Archived from the original on 22 September 2008.
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