I had never read any Star Trek extended universe novels, so I figured it would be fun.Īnd it was. One of the authors, I can't remember who now, mentioned this book in response to a question about enjoyable debut novels for authors they loved now.
However, the records (of what will potentially breed from what) have been lost, and the heroine and her friends must cope with a resulting variety of comic crises – including clashes with the complex native Ecology of Mirabile itself.I picked this book up after I watched a round table discussion of Urban Fantasy writers that included Jim Butcher. Wheat, for example, may very occasionally sprout sunflowers, or daffodils cockroaches. Their imported Earth flora and fauna has had its DNA genetically engineered to maintain diversity by providing the new colony with all sorts of lifeforms not actually carried by the ship. This builds up an engaging portrait of life on the eponymous planet, colonized by humans from a Generation Starship. More interesting is the loosely linked Mama Jason sequence beginning with "The Loch Moose Monster" (March 1989 Asimov's) and assembled as Mirabile (coll of linked stories 1991).
Her second novel, Hellspark ( 1988), carries some of the same digestible competence into an sf adventure whose heroine (attended by a sentient AI) must defend the inhabitants of a valuable planet from a predatory corporation, helped in her task by her very considerable competence in kinesics and Linguistics. Her first sf book was a Star Trek Tie, Uhura's Song ( 1985), reckoned to be one of the better novels attached to that enterprise.
(1946-2008) US author who began publishing sf with "Faith-of-the-Month Club" (1 February 1982 Analog), as by Anon., and who won a 1993 Hugo Best Novelette Award for "The Nutcracker Coup" (December 1992 Asimov's).
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