Status Updates From Blood and Fire (Star Wolf, #4)

“Daddy—!”

:,)

(The more one discovers, the more it raises questions. For Fuller, Berg, Harberts first and foremost, I suppose. Which has long been the case actually, but now even more so).

Personally, Korie feels such potentially revelatory addition to character influences; early on I've been intrigued by Stamets' conception: this devoted mushroom scientist - as obviously inspired by the namesake; decidedly not an engineer, but in charge of a huge starship Engineering operation. With a personality from who knows where.

However actual or not, it's exciting to see possible traces of that etymology here.