Colorful Creatures, Friends, and Dangerous Forests Everywhere: 3 (The Federation of Intelligent Life) - Softcover

Andersen, Liz J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998844861 ISBN 13: 9780998844862

Publisher: Labbwerk Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

During the final lab of her junior year of interplanetary veterinary school, Taje nearly gets stuck inside a surgical patient much larger than herself. Her spirits lift though, as she and Giem are assigned an externship on the exquisite planet of Enchantment. Its landscape is pockmarked with craters lined with flower rings where the brilliantly colored crater pups live. They are hunted, captured, and quarantined for the popular and lucrative pet market. Taje and Giem must help in the Quarantine Stations. But the two vet students soon discover the import/export business is far less than ethical, and the hunting is likely to upset the crater ecology. When they speak out about this, the whole planet turns against them. Will they be able to save the crater pups and escape back to school on Olecranon unscathed?

About this title

About the Author

Liz J. Andersen always wondered what extraterrestrial life would be like. So she earned a bachelor's degree in animal physiology with highest honors, and a D.V.M. degree from UC Davis, and read lot of science fiction. She is a retired, fully licensed Veterinarian whose love of books also led her to work for the Eugene Public Library. She told Tajen Jesmuhr's early story in her first novel, Some of My Best Friends Are Human. In a second novel, My New Best Friend is an Alien, she detailed Taje's further adventures as an interplanetary veterinary student. And several stories featured Dr. Jesmuhr in Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact. She has also edited and published her grandfather's semi-autobiographical novel, Along the Margins: South Dakota Immigrant Homesteaders. Writing runs in the family. Liz lives Northwest of Normal in Eugene, Oregon, with her husband, Brian J. Boudler, a Musician and retired Veterinary Technician.

Edition details

• Publisher: Labbwerk Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0998844861
• ISBN 13: 9780998844862
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350