The Children Star (Elysium Cycle)

Joan Slonczewski, author of Daughter of Elysium, and A Door into Ocean, is one of the field's leading writers of biological SF. Her new novel, The Children Star, is an ambitious adventure set on the planet Prokaryon -- a world that is only habitable to humans who have been genetically altered. But disaster is close at hand when a greedy corporation attempts to alter the planet's ecosystem in an attempt to make it habitable for all humans. Spectacular and plausible world-building fun from an SF writer to watch.

Literature & Fiction

Slonczewski, Joan

United States

Tor Books

Brain Plague is the new hard SF novel by Joan Slonczewski, set in the same future universe as her award-winning A Door into Ocean and The Children Star (a New York Times Notable Book). An intelligent microbe race that can live symbiotically in other intelligent beings is colonizing the human race throughout the civilized universe. And each colony of microbes has its own personality, good or bad. In some people, carriers, they are brain enhancers, and in others a fatal brain plague, a living addiction. This is the story of one woman's psychological and moral struggle to adjust to having an ambitious colony of microbes living permanently in her own head. This novel is one of the most powerful and involving SF novels of the year.

Brain Plague (Elysium Cycle)

This book is in the company of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed, Joanna Russ' The Female Man, and Samuel R. Delany's Triton, all major SF utopias that explore sex and gender politics. It is a book that academics write papers about and teach in SF co

A Door Into Ocean (Elysium Cycle, 1)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Orb Books

The Earth's interstellar government tries to force citizenship on the human coloists living on Foxfield, but is unprepared for opposition from the planet's group-minded inhabitants

Still Forms on Foxfield

Del Rey

A Door into Ocean

A Door into Ocean is the novel upon which the author's reputation as an important SF writer principally rests. A ground-breaking work both of feminist SF and of world-building hard SF, it concerns the Sharers of Shora, a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future who are pacifists, highly advanced in biological sciences, and who reproduce by parthenogenesis--there are no males--and tells of the conflicts that erupt when a neighboring civilization decides to develop their ocean world, and send in an army.

Avon/Books

Wall Around Eden

Bringing her family to the pristine technological world of Elysium in order to avert an interplanetary war, Raincloud Windclan encounters an internal corruption that threatens to destroy the immortal society. Reprint.

Daughter of Elysium

"Masterful story"-Library Journal **** "Magnificently detailed"-Chicago Sun Times ****   The pristine city of Elysium floats on the water world of Shora, inhabited by 'immortals' who have succeeded in unlocking  the secrets of life.****  Outsider Blackbear Windclan wants to share the secret of immortality with his own people, but can he, and the City of Elysium, survive the corruption and decadence that immortality has bred into the ageless society. ****  And what of the consciousness of self-aware nano-sentient servitors  and their quest for vengence?  **** **** "An enormously impressive achievement...A marvelous array of cultures presented in astonishing depth"-Kirkus Review **** "A thoughtful, well-crafted novel...Memorable...Intricate...Rich and Detailed...Touchingly Real"-Publishers Weekly

William Morrow and Co.

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The Children Star (Elysium Cycle)

Brain Plague (Elysium Cycle)

The Children Star (Elysium Cycle)

A Door Into Ocean (Elysium Cycle, 1)

Still Forms on Foxfield

A Door into Ocean

Wall Around Eden

Still Forms on Foxfield

Daughter of Elysium

Daughter of Elysium