Ammonite by Nicola Griffith is excellent. It is one of the best science fiction books I have read. (Actually all of Nicola's books are excellent.)Marghe Taishan is sent to the colony of GP (nicknamed Jeep) on a distant planet to test a new vaccine. Since the time that the colony was formed all of the colonists have been attacked by the same virus. All of the men were killed by it. The few women who survived were forever altered by it. Terrified of spreading the virus, the company that started the colony has abandoned it.
Marghe, an anthropologist, is given an experimental vaccine and is sent down to both test the vaccine and to try to track down the mystery of the virus and the civilization that thrives on the planet despite it. Once she steps into the transport ship, she has to either find a cure for the virus or forever be exiled there. Marghe is the last hope for the humans on Jeep. Or is she?
Griffith, Nicola. (1992). Ammonite. New York: DelRey.
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