Olga Godim's Reviews > Mirabile

This was a collection of short stories united by the same characters. The stories follow each other in chronological order. The action in every story takes place on a distant planet of Mirabile, which makes the entire book science fiction. Of a sort.
There are no battles and no space flights in the stories. The only science is biology. The protagonist is a biologist and geneticist, and her main job is to keep the Earth native species the colonists had brought to the planet of Mirabile and the Mirabile's native biota to work in harmony. Of course, crises arise now and again, and every crisis warrants its own story.
The book is low-key and fragmented. There are no villains there, only good people against nature. In a way, it is an idyll. But the protagonist is a wonderful female scientist, capable and warmhearted, and it was a quiet pleasure to read about her adventures.