Mirabile

by Janet Kagan

Paperback, 1992

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Available

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Fic SF Kagan

Genres

Science Fiction

All Topics

Fiction

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Publication

Tor Books (1992), Mass Market Paperback, 288 pages

Description

On the planet Mirabile, the Earth plants and animals genetically programmed to proliferate as on Earth are producing bizarre mutants--among them, the carnivorous Kangaroo Rex and Frankenswine--who threaten the planet's ecology and its colonists.

User reviews

LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey

Mirabile presents a weird and wonderful world, with a perfectly reasonable background for strange critters popping up all over the place; very solid and realistic characters, who make wrong decisions and right decisions and grow as the book goes on...wonderful worldbuilding and great stories. It is

several short stories in a (somewhat weak) frame, but it works quite well as a book. The characters are consistent throughout - and they do grow and change through the course of the book.

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LibraryThing member mouse612

Amusing inter-related short stories with Janet Kagan's usual trickster humor and attention to detail. I love the concept of Dragons Teeth and the visual immediacy of the discriptions. A good fast read.

LibraryThing member blaine

Compilation of short stories. This was great fun!

LibraryThing member ScoLgo

A collection of vignettes featuring the same basic cast of characters. These stories are told, (generally in the form of entertainments for the youngsters of the colony), by the matriarch and chief biologist of a colony established on the not always friendly world of Mirabile. So, what we have here

are tales such as 'The Return of the Kangaroo Rex', 'The Loch Moose Monster', and 'Frankenswine'. All fairly entertaining and told in a humorous but occasionally too-glib manner.

Mirabile is a light & easy read where the antagonist is the environment. In a way, Mirabile comes across as a sort of "Deathworld Lite", with the exception that much of the flora and fauna is, if not outright friendly, (some is), at least ambivalent toward the colonists, as opposed to constantly trying to kill them, the way Harrison's Pyrrus was imagined.

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