KAGAN, Janet

KAGAN, Janet
(1946-)
   US writer who began publishing sf with "Faith-of-the Month" for ASF in 1982, and who won a 1993 HUGO Best Novelette Award for"The Nutcracker Coup" (1992). Her first sf book was a STAR TREK tie, Uhura's Song * (1985), reckoned to be one of the better novels attached to that enterprise. Her second novel, Hellspark (1988), carries some of the same digestible competence into an sf adventure whose heroine (attended by a sentient AI) must defend the inhabitants of a valuable planet from a predatory corporation, helped in her task by her very considerable competence in kinesics and LINGUISTICS. More interesting is Mirabile (coll of linked stories 1991), a loosely linked portrait of the eponymous planet, colonized by humans who import flora and fauna whose DNA has been genetically engineered to provide the new colony with all sorts of lifeforms. However, the records (of what will sprout from what) have been lost, and the heroine must cope with a variety of comic crises.
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