book: Semiosis , Sue Burke

as a speculative bio enjoyer, it did take me a bit to get in-tune with Semiosis . I kept distracting myself with questions about why an alien planet would have plants and animals very much within a reasonable Earthen frame (like the fippokats). I had to get over myself. The words (e.g. bamboo, lentil, tulip, eagles, slugs...) referred to aliens that were non-Earthen in nature, and they were not…