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Mirabile (Mass Market Paperback)

by Janet Kagan (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Tom Doherty Assoc Llc; Reprint edition (Jun 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0812509935
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812509939
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.7 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 836,096 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant treatment of genetic engineering, 4 Jan 2004
This review is from: Mirabile (Hardcover)
Picture this: in the future, mankind has travelled to the stars and settled many planets. But the indigenous life is not compatible with the human species (ie, we can't eat the plants or the animals). So genetically engineered animal and plant embryos are shipped along with the settlers, to allow them to set up viable colonies. The genetic engineering is used to 'encrypt' multiple genetic blueprints into one organism; thus each creature/plant shipped can potentially 'mutate' into (over a couple of generations) any of the others coded into its genome. Wonderful- except that the settlers for the planet Mirabile had a computer malfunction. Their instruction manual detailing which creatures can turn into which others is missing. Added to that is the problem that they are several generations removed from the people who actually lived on Earth, so they have to rely on the remnants of the computer to tell them what the latest mutation is. Communications with Earth are non-existent (no FTL stuff here!), so they can't check back.

There is a substantial ecological message in the whole story (the interaction of the Earth-based life with the indigenous life, the quandary of which mutations to keep, and which to wipe out), but it's not parsimonious; you don't feel as if the author is waving her finger at you, shouting 'Naughty people, play NICELY with your planet!'. It's actually very funny; the book is full of nicely observed lunacy, such as a carnivorous kangaroo/T-rex cross.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and wish, based upon it and the other two of her books which I have read (Hellspark and Uhura's Song), that she would write more fantasy/science fiction.

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