No blade of grass

title:

No blade of grass

summary:

A new virus strain has infected rice crops in East Asia causing massive famine; the virus is also revealed to be found in the UK but because of its selectivity does not affect the country's agriculture. After the introduction of a new pesticide, developed in preference to breeding resistant crops, a mutated virus appears and infects the staple crops of West Asia and Europe such as wheat and barley - all of the grasses (thus the novel's title). It threatens a famine engulfing the whole of the Old World, while Australasia and the Americas attempt to impose rigorous quarantine to keep the virus out.

Attribution:

Christopher, John, 1922-2012, Avon Books, and In copyright--educational user permitted; for more information, see http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/

Description:

Book jacket image of the copy held in the Science Fiction & Fantasy Research Collection at Cushing Memorial Library on the campus of Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas and included in an exhibition, "Live To Build A Better World: Despair, Survival, and Hope in Science Fiction’s Response to Environmental Change," at Cushing from January 19, 2021-June 30, 2021.