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Need help remembering book name

Californian Refugees
13-09-2005, 06:19
I read this book 15-20 years ago, and am interested in re-reading it. I have forgotten both the name of the book and the author's name.

What I remember:
1. Many of the characters in the book (maybe all) have animal DNA.
2. Near the beginning, one of the main characters (a woman with cat DNA) arrives by boat along with her "grupo", her sisters. (I think the author kills off her "grupo" fairly quickly.
3. Everybody thinks they don't eat meat. However, it is later revealed that their main food is an animal whose tissue turns plantlike after mating. I think they eventually explode as well, with eggs being scattered in the explosion. We find this out because the main character visits someone that takes care of these animals. He tried to keep one as a pet, but eventually an animal of the opposite sex found it to mate with and so it lost it's animalness as it began to swell up.
4. All of the various DNA mixtures were created by some scientist generations ago whose name is now revered and used in oaths and such.
5. Tech level is medieval, I think.

Does this ring a bell with anybody? Thanks for the help!
Antikythera
13-09-2005, 06:25
cant help you but it sounds like a good book
The Black Forrest
13-09-2005, 06:42
For some reason I want to say Darwinia but I don't think that may be it.....
Squi
13-09-2005, 06:49
Dang, I know the book but for the life of me cannot recall the title. I think it is one of the boxes out in the laundry room, will let you know f I find it.
Squi
13-09-2005, 07:00
I'm pretty sure the book is Cat Karina, not posititve but pretty sure. Sorry, cannot find copy to be sure.
Flagg1209
13-09-2005, 07:25
Cat Karina by Michael Coney - http://www.uleth.ca/edu/runte/ncfguide/etalrev.htm#coneycat
Californian Refugees
13-09-2005, 10:28
That's the one! Thanks!
Californian Refugees
13-09-2005, 10:28
That's the one! Thanks!
Bryce Crusader States
13-09-2005, 12:45
Sounds like a Cheap Rip-Off of The Island of Dr. Moreau
Harlesburg
13-09-2005, 12:50
Metamorpisis?
Legless Pirates
13-09-2005, 12:53
Animorphs? Oh wait. That's a TV series
Harlesburg
13-09-2005, 13:03
Animorphs? Oh wait. That's a TV series
Thats what i was thinking of. :(