Book Synopsis Long before Under the Dome , this novel of a town trapped within an invisible force field earned a Nebula Award nomination for the author of Way Station . Nothing much ever happens in Millville, a small, secluded Middle-American community--until the day Brad Carter discovers he is unable to leave. And the nearly bankrupt real estate agent is not the only one being held prisoner; every resident is confined within the towns boundaries by an invisible force field that cannot be breached. As local tensions rapidly reach breaking point, a set of bizarre circumstances leads Brad to the source of their captivity, making him humanitys reluctant ambassador to an alien race of sentient flora, and privy to these jailers ultimate intentions. But some of Millvilles most powerful citizens do not take kindly to Carters collaboration with the enemy, even under the sudden threat of global apocalypse. Decades before Stephen King trapped an entire town in Under the Dome , science fiction Grand Master Clifford D. Simak explored the shocking effects of communal captivity on an unsuspecting population. Nominated for the Nebula Award, All Flesh Is Grass is a riveting masterwork that brilliantly reinvents the alien invasion story. Review Quotes Admirably handled. -- The Observer Without Simak, science fiction would have been without its most humane element, its most humane spokesman for the wisdom of the ordinary person and the value of life lived close to the land. --James Gunn To read science-fiction is to read Simak. The reader who does not like Simak stories does not like science-fiction at all. --Robert A. Heinlein About the Author During his fifty-five-year career, Clifford D. Simak produced some of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written. Born in 1904 on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin, Simak got a job at a small-town newspaper in 1929 and eventually became news editor of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, writing fiction in his spare time. Simak was best known for the book City , a reaction to the horrors of World War II, and for his novel Way Station. In 1953 City was awarded the International Fantasy Award, and in following years, Simak won three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award. In 1977 he became the third Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and before his death in 1988, he was named one of three inaugural winners of the Horror Writers Associations Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.