Books by Joan Slonczewski and Complete Book Reviews
Joan Slonczewski, Author William Morrow & Company $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-12509-7
Like its predecessor, A Door into Ocean , this thoughtful, well-crafted novel is set on the ocean world of Shora. Shora's original settlers, the Sharers, are peace-loving women who live in close harmony with nature. They now share their world with...
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Joan Slonczewski, Author Tor Books $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-86716-4
Two hundred years after the events recounted in Slonczewski's Daughter of Elysium (1993), little has changed in the confederacy of human worlds known as the Fold. The wealthy, near-immortal technocrats of Elysium still dominate Fold politics, and...
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Joan Slonczewski, Author Tor Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86718-8
Slonczewski adds a new chapter to her evolving saga of the pangalactic Fold (The Children Star; A Door into Ocean; Daughter of Elysium) with this provocative if coolly clinical meditation on nanotechnology, artistic creativity and godhood. On...
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Joan Slonczewski, Author Arbor House $17.95 (403p) ISBN 978-0-87795-763-8
In her ambitious second SF novel (after Still Forms on Foxfield biology professor Slonczewski has created an intriguing ocean world with its own culture and biological adaptions. (Particularly ingenious are the clickfliesinsects that collectively...
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Joan Slonczewski, Author William Morrow & Company $18.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-55710-030-6
Two decades after a nuclear war, small enclaves survive the destruction of the ozone layer, somewhat protected by walls of air established by the alien floating globes that the radiation-contaminated humans call angelbees. Isabel Garcia-Chase comes...
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Joan Slonczewski. Tor, $25.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2956-1
Biology professor and author Slonczewski (the Elysium Cycle) projects science, society, and technology from our present into a near future when Earth is under attack by alien cyanide-emitting plants. The oceans have risen, and information is...
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