Jellyfish in space! I really enjoyed this, and not only because it was full of gore and sea creatures. I liked how it explored the problem of museums and stolen body parts, because this is an ongoing issue in our world and one that needs resolving as soon as humanly possible (but that won't be, I'm sure). I also liked the young heroine who, running away from home to go to an interstellar university, must use the traditions of her people to survive and negotiate a very different, and literally alien, culture. I do wonder if it isn't in some places all resolved a little too quickly and easily for my particular taste -is the mass murder of a shipload of young students just handwaved away? - but then again this is a novella so the author is limited by form. Where she has exploited that form particularly well, however, is in the imagery and sense of wonder, which are both concentrated down to produce vivid and extraordinary bursts of the marvelous.