Janet Kagan's Mirabile
This was a very charming and very interesting sci-fi book about a (middle aged) woman who works as a scientist on another planet, dealing with flora and fauna imported from earth several generations ago, only they have other stuff encoded in their genes for science reasons, and sometimes weird mutants crop up. And that’s not getting into the native plants and animals! I think this was initially a bunch of short stories, but all about the same characters, so there is a bit of repetitive exposition, but I didn’t mind bc the narrative voice is so grumpy and funny. (I was especially tickled at the many times she “necks” with her boyfriend.) I just really enjoyed this. A/A-.
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