25 Nov, 2021
Special Requests
Janet Kagan’s 1991 Mirabile is a collection of her Mirabile biological SF stories.
Having braved the hazards of the gulfs of space, a fleet of generation ships settled an alien world they called Mirabile. Their toolkit was the best Earth had to offer at the time they launched. As is so often true when cutting-edge technology is deployed, unforeseen complications ensued.
22 Dec, 2020
Illimitable Dominion
Janet Kagan’s 1985 Uhura’s Song is a Star Trek: Original Series tie-in novel.
The starship Enterprise has been dispatched to Eeiauo, whose inhabitants have very reluctantly asked for help dealing with a virulent and quite deadly pandemic. This is not the first time ADF Syndrome has washed across this world — the last outbreak killed twenty thousand people — but it is the first outbreak that has forced the Eeiauoians to swallow their pride and ask for Federation aid.
A medical crisis would seem to be Doctor McCoy’s bailiwick. As it turns out, it is actually communications officer Lieutenant Uhura’s.
SPOILERS FOLLOW FOR THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD NOVEL
30 Nov, 2020
Special Requests
Janet Kagan’s 1988 Hellsparkis a standalone SF mystery.
It’s by mere chance that Hellspark trader Tocohl Susumo interrupts an apparent mugging. Consequences! What was supposed to be an enjoyable holiday finds her sent to the newly found world of Lassti. Thanks to a misapprehension, she will be trusted to make a number of important legal determinations. Whether the late researcher Oloitokitok died by misadventure or was murdered might be the least of her decisions.
The survey team may be in the midst of a first contact. Or it might not. Nobody is quite sure.
(spoilers)