The Pollinators of Eden Author:John Boyd Dr Freda Caron, blond and beautiful, had waited in vain for her fiance to disembark from Project Able's recently returned starship. But Paul had unaccountably requested an extended tour of duty on "The Planet of Flowers" and, in his stead, he had send an assistant, Hal Polino, with a verbal message and an exquisitely iridescent yellow tulip tha... more »t not only had a plastic memory - but could talk. Freda soon realized she must unlock the secrets of the flower planet, and its strange hold on Paul, through Hal. Hal's lack of methodology and unscientific irreverence constantly confuse Freda, and they battle one another, the ultra-rational world-of-tomorrow they inhabit, and, ultimately, the strange, sentient, unearthly flower planet Freda journey's to explore. The climax of this shocking and oddly beautiful novel is bizarre and delightful.« less