Hardcover, 322 pages

English language

Published Dec. 23, 1985 by Crown Publishers.

ISBN:
978-0-517-55866-9
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OCLC Number:
11727232

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Ward Moore's classic novel "Greener Than You Think" posits a world with Bermuda grass running out of control -- choking out every other plant and destroying the food supply of animals and humanity alike. Originally published in 1947.

3 editions

reviewed Greener than you think by RH Value Publishing (Classics of modern science fiction ;)

Review of 'Greener than you think' on 'Goodreads'

Entirely too Vonnegut for me. Depressing, political, moralizing, and full to the brim with characters that not only failed to inspire the least bit of empathy, but actively annoyed and/or repulsed -- and this includes the narrator, a small-minded, self-congratulatory idiot I loathed within the first few pages. As if to add insult to injury, the author threw in weird conceits, like omitting apostrophes from contractions and hyphens from compound words, and including a character who constantly switched from one cliched caricature of an accent to another. As a short story it might have been tolerable -- as a 320-page novel it was about 300 pages too long.

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