A review by catcherinthepi
All Flesh Is Grass by Clifford D. Simak

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. It's in a long line of first-encounters sci-fi novels, but the fun twist here was sentient plants. Of the works I've read with sentient plants, this may be my favorite. The way the plants harvest intelligence seems pretty planty to me. 

I didn't enjoy the 1960s-era inability for women characters to pass the Bechdel test, which makes this novel very much of its time.

Spoiler

Reading this in the 2020s places  the bomb threat as a stand-in for climate change, the rise of fascism, etc. quite easily.

The ending was tacky and felt rushed, but there were a lot of good ideas and weird aliens to be had.