“so who's more adult- somebody who works like mad to avoid a problem or somebody who works like mad to solve it?” — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image
“we're looking for a planeet on the strength of a song. it's crazy I know, but its the only chance we have to do something useful." ...Evan Wilson said gravely "I think you're as crazy as Heinrich Schliemann - and you know what happened to him!" "What" ... "you don't know what happened to him?" she asked her blue eyes… — Janet Kagan Copy Share
“You have no tail!" said Brightspot. her own whipped suddenly forward; she stared, first at it, then at Wilson."How do you manage?” — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image
“Kagan's law of first contact,'You'll surprise you more than they will.” — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image
“The crested sprookje let her hand drop. From its own vibrantly colored yoke it tugged a feather and gave it to her. Feathers are… — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image
“Blew it up his nose. That woman should have cards printed: 'Dr. Evan Wilson, Imaginative Medicine a Specialty.” — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image
“Let me put it this way: Would you like to go off on your own now?” The arachne hunched. Tocohl saw herself reflected in the ebony eye of its lens. “Do you mean without you?” “Yes, that’s exactly what I mean.” “I wouldn’t like that at all. Who’d explain things to me? Who would I talk to?” The arachne began… — Janet Kagan Copy Share
“medicine I know. you tell me what a pulsar is and I'll tell you whatever you need to know about the organ of Zucker-kandl."… — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image
“By the time the arachne caught up with them in Kejesli’s quarters, Maggy found layli-layli calulan in the midst of an elaborate lie. Like… — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image
“So', she said, lifting her beer in a toast to the newest comer to LostRoses. 'Do you have a name or was your mother… — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image
“All in all, Maggy concluded, she had done right. Tocohol knew that she could not see the ship from here, so Maggy had not… — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image
“That year the Ribeiro's daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its place -- but these suckers… — Janet Kagan Copy Share Image