Mirabile
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4.4 • 8 Ratings
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Publisher Description
On the distant planet of Mirabile, a settlement of human colonists from Earth is jeopardized by the genetic mutants of Earth plants and animas like the Lock Moose Monster, the Frankenswine, and the dreaded carnivorous Kangaroo Rex—and it’s up to ecological troubleshooter Mama Jason to destroy the menacing mutants.
“Janet Kagan explores the interfaces of culture, language, intelligence, and what it means to be human.”—Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, coauthors of the best-selling Liaden Universe® series
“An absolute delight.”—Mike Resnick
At the publisher’s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Customer Reviews
Wonderful!
Just as good this year as it was when it came out, bunchteen years ago.
We lost Kagan too soon
This collection of short stories about the colony planet of Mirable, and the trials of genetic engineering redundancy /and/ an alien ecology, is an excellent exploration of a frontier world where not everything has been lost -- but the computer files have holes.
This being Baen, there are some typos: most notably a frequent "lead" instead of "led" (with that pronunciation, the first is a metal, not the past tense of the identically-spelled "lead" (pronounced "Leed"). While English is a terrible, terrible language, I do wish that the copy-editors would catch such issues and not rely on spellcheckers. There are also occasional missing words.
That said, it's a good book. It's /Kagan/! She writes happy, clever people, and if her kids are perhaps precocious and well-behaved, they're still a part of a an optimistic universe.