Mirabile

English language

Published Jan. 4, 1991 by TOR.

ISBN:
978-0-8125-0993-9
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This is a collection of short stories all set on the world Mirabile, and all centering around Mama Jason and the unpredictable wildlife of the planet Mirabile. Settled by humans at some unspecified time in the future, it is now the site of a struggling human colony that arrived in damaged colony ships with genetically engineered embryos of earth wildlife, but incomplete instructions about both what they have, and how they have been altered. For reasons of efficiency that are a bit glossed over, it appears that when the embryos for the colony ship were created, DNA from multiple species were combined into each embryo, with instructions on how to activate one or the other genome depending on what the colonists wanted. Those instructions, however, were part of the data loss, with the result that the new colonists are stuck with a bunch of embryos that may not necessarily breed …

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