Rumors of Spring

by Richard Grant

Book Overview

An astonishing odyssey is about to begin. Gone are the wild grasses and rolling meadows. Gone too are the towering trees--except in one last forest in a forgotten corner of the world. Until something totally unexpected, remarkable, and frightening happens: The forest begins to grow. And grow. And grow. Mother Nature is back with a vengeance and mankind's very survival is at stake. Now a crusade of unlikely allies is venturing boldly into the heart...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553343696
• ISBN13: 9780553343694
• Release Date: February 1987
• Publisher: Spectra Books
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Have to work, but Grant is worth it.

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.

Excellent far future fantasy tale

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.

A magical mystery tour of a fairy-tale future

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.

Tam Lin in our future where nature learns to retaliate.

Set in a not too distant future, _Rumours of Spring_ is a magical journey into the essence of nature. The last forest is suffering from man's assault on the environment until it learns to survive. Collectively a forest can be thought of as an immense slow moving slow thinking organism, with the will, and the desire to survive. When the last forest figures out how to survive it thrusts outward reclaiming long lost lands. In the midst of this a young girl comes of age and meets the son of the spirit of the forest and together they, and the forest, rediscover that which is really worthwhile.