Kelson Reads commented on Semiosis by Sue Burke (Semiosis Duology, #1)
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I love that the intelligent bamboo has basically developed IP-over-Pollen to transmit messages over long distances, complete with fragmenting and reassembling messages too small to fit in what one grain can encode.
It reminds me of the classic IP-over-carrier-pigeon April Fools' spec www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149