Primary Inversion (Asaro, Catherine) 1995

A mostly promising first novel.  There's a lot of clunky over-exposition of the "I JUST USED A WORD I MADE UP AND WILL NOW EXPLAIN WHAT IT MEANS" type, and there's some awkward plotting to get everyone important in her life "on stage" at some point during the book, and the middle of the book drags, but when Asaro gets to the places where she's just writing and not worrying about hitting her next plot point, it's pretty good.