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Mirabile by Janet Kagan
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ENGLISH: Mirabile is a planet colonized by man, who has brought there a database of genetically manipulated terrestrial plant and animal genomes, from which unpredictable mixed species (dragon teeth) usually emerge. The description of the emerging biological phenomena is surprising and spectacular.

But I didn't like the fact that Kagan pays tribute to our current culture of disengagement by making her two protagonists (the old female narrator and a retired male explorer, two nice tireless elderly persons) share a bed without being married. I agree with Susan, a teenager who is shocked by their open necking. In fact, necking is mentioned so frequently, that it actually becomes sickeningly sweet.

By the way, Susan is a very strange girl. The six stories in the book are told in chronological order, following the romance between the two protagonists. But Susan's age is 16 in the second story, 18 in the third, and again 16 in the fourth and sixth stories. Those jumps in her age are inexplicable. (:-) Well, we can say that in the third story a typo slipped in, and Susan is actually 16 throughout the book, although the typo was not 16->18, but sixteen->eighteen.

ESPAÑOL: Mirabile es un planeta colonizado por el hombre, al que ha llevado una base de datos de genomas de plantas y animales terrestres manipulados genéticamente, de los que suelen salir especies mixtas impredecibles (dientes de dragón). La descripción de los fenómenos biológicos que van surgiendo es sorprendente y espectacular.

Lo que no me gustó es que Kagan paga tributo a la actual cultura de la desvinculación al hacer que sus dos protagonistas (la anciana narradora y un explorador retirado, ambos inagotables y bastante simpáticos, por cierto) compartan lecho sin estar casados. Estoy de acuerdo con Susan, una chica adolescente que se escandaliza ante los arrumacos de los dos viejos. Los menciona tantas veces que resultan empalagosos.

Por cierto, Susan es una chica muy rara. Las seis historias del libro van en orden cronológico, siguiendo la aventura amorosa entre los dos protagonistas. Pero Susan tiene 16 años en la segunda, 18 en la tercera, y otra vez 16 en la cuarta y la sexta. Esos saltos de edad son inexplicables. (:-) En fin, admitamos que en la tercera historia se coló un gazapo, y que Susan tiene 16 años durante todo el libro.
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March 22, 2020 – Shelved as: to-read
March 22, 2020 – Shelved
April 17, 2020 – Started Reading (Mass Market Paperback Edition)
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