Name this book...again
August 25, 2011 5:45 PM Subscribe
Yet another name-that-SF-book-question
What I remember:
A father (a sentient wolf with a robotic arm on his back) and his adopted daughter (a blond adult) go on a scientific journey of discovery using some sort of screwship or submersible that cuts through the think vegetation (vines?) that covers the planet's surface. They run into another young woman who belongs to a maternal society that dwells on the surface of the vegetation and has as a symbol granny glasses. They also encounter a society of people who live on the ground that are practicing backwards evolution, and have bum-shuffle races where the loser is the fastest, and the loser gets eaten by their deity which is in fact a giant carnivorous plant. There is also a society of surface-dwelling non humanoids which have a reputation for eating people but it's actually a running joke.
I've tried Googling various terms with no luck. If it helps, I took the book out of the public library in Toronto in the very late 1990s or early 20002.
What I remember:
A father (a sentient wolf with a robotic arm on his back) and his adopted daughter (a blond adult) go on a scientific journey of discovery using some sort of screwship or submersible that cuts through the think vegetation (vines?) that covers the planet's surface. They run into another young woman who belongs to a maternal society that dwells on the surface of the vegetation and has as a symbol granny glasses. They also encounter a society of people who live on the ground that are practicing backwards evolution, and have bum-shuffle races where the loser is the fastest, and the loser gets eaten by their deity which is in fact a giant carnivorous plant. There is also a society of surface-dwelling non humanoids which have a reputation for eating people but it's actually a running joke.
I've tried Googling various terms with no luck. If it helps, I took the book out of the public library in Toronto in the very late 1990s or early 20002.
I have nothing of value to add to this, but whenever I see stuff like this on AskMe I feel like it needs to be punctuated with "Metafilter!", like it's the useful-and-helpful-part-of-the-internet's equivalent of the Aristocrats punchline.
When the OP leads out with "Can you identify this incredibly obscure thing I only vaguely remember, with the following bizzare details, that may or may not have included some other insanely weird thing in it maybe or maybe I'm thinking of something else" and the very first reply is "It's this work by this author, musician or artist, here's a link to it", I like to raise a fist and say "Metafilter!"
posted by mhoye at 6:03 AM on August 26, 2011 [2 favorites]
When the OP leads out with "Can you identify this incredibly obscure thing I only vaguely remember, with the following bizzare details, that may or may not have included some other insanely weird thing in it maybe or maybe I'm thinking of something else" and the very first reply is "It's this work by this author, musician or artist, here's a link to it", I like to raise a fist and say "Metafilter!"
posted by mhoye at 6:03 AM on August 26, 2011 [2 favorites]
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