Grass (short story)

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 as an influence on this story.This Town interview
* Grass won Best Non-Who Prose Fiction in the 2001 Jade Pagoda mailing list awards.
== 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 ==
== External links ==
Category:FP short stories
Category:Stories set in 1805
Category:Mad Norwegian Press short stories