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Brain Plague (Elysium Cycle)
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    		Brain Plague (Elysium Cycle)
    Joan Slonczewski
    Manufacturer: Tor Books
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    Binding: Hardcover

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    ASIN: 0312867182

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    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. AUTHORBIO: Joan Slonczewski lives in Gambier, Ohio and teaches biology at Kenyon College.
    A Door into Ocean
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      		A Door into Ocean
      Joan Slonczewski
      Manufacturer: Ultramarine Pub Co
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Hardcover

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      ASIN: 0893661562

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      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.
      Year's Best SF 6 (SFBC Edition) (Year's Best SF, 6)
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        		Year's Best SF 6 (SFBC Edition) (Year's Best SF, 6)
        Paul J. McAulley , David Brin , Robert Silverberg , Tananarive Due , Ken MacLeod , M. Shayne Bell , Brian Stableford , Joan Slonczewski , Harold Waldrop , and David Langford
        Manufacturer: EOS/Harper Collins
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        Binding: Hardcover

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        ASIN: 0739418564

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        Hardcover version of ISBN# 0061020559
        Still Forms on Foxfield
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          		Still Forms on Foxfield
          Joan Slonczewski
          Manufacturer: Avon Books (Mm)
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Paperback

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          The Children Star (Elysium Cycle)
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            		The Children Star (Elysium Cycle)
            Joan Slonczewski
            Manufacturer: Tor Science Fiction
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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            ASIN: 0812568621

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            Idealistic Brother Rod and the Spirit Brethren sponsor an orphaned children's colony on the harsh and inhospitable alien planet Prokaryon. But the entire planet's ecosystem is too structured, too controlled, to be natural. So when Proteus Unlimited, a greedy interstellar corporation decides to strip-mine and then terraform the planet, the search for the intelligences behind the environment becomes a race against time. And what will happen to the orphans if the surface of the planet is boiled off?
            Daughter of Elysium
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              		Daughter of Elysium
              Joan Slonczewski
              Manufacturer: Avon Books (Mm)
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              ASIN: 038077027X
              A Door Into A Ocean
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                		A Door Into A Ocean
                Joan Slonczewski
                Manufacturer: Arbor House
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Hardcover
                ASIN: B000GR77R6
                Wall Around Eden
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                • Where there is life...
                • Life Goes On
                • Very Good and Unconventional Science Fiction
                		 Wall Around Eden
                Joan Slonczewski
                Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Hardcover

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                ASIN: 1557100306

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                5 out of 5 stars Where there is life..........2005-10-24

                is there hope? The Earth is recovering from a atomic war that was carried out twenty years earlier. And right after the missiles exploded the aliens came and protected some of the towns and cities with the Walls. The Walls kept the people in, while they watched the rest of the world die. The Walls kept them in but allowed the radiation in.
                But some babies lived and some animals and plants survived (inside the Wall). Now humans must try to keep living, planning for a future, a future for their children and mankind.
                To have a future, they must understand their past and also come to understand the aliens. Did they start the war? Why did they come and build the Walls? What plans do they hace for mankind or are they just collecting what is left of mankind for a zoo?
                A must for any sci-fi library.

                4 out of 5 stars Life Goes On.......2004-12-16

                This story was well enough written, but it lacked some pizzazz or something.

                It told the story of a community after the nuclear holocaust, people are protected by some advanced species. The proctectors can only communicate in pictures and, therfore, not very complex ideas.

                The story revolves around a young girl, coming of age, who is rebellious, but can not really find anything to rebel against. The people are well enough off and have freedom within the confines of their community, but they cannot go beyond a certain distant away.

                The be all to end all is that she gets to know their captors better and grows to see them as protectors. I think there is an allogory to pregnancy and birth in here also, but I did not look or think too hard about it. It is a pretty good story.

                4 out of 5 stars Very Good and Unconventional Science Fiction.......2001-07-31

                This book is an interesting combination of pacifist-Quaker tract, coming of age novel, and post-holocaust science fiction. The story is set in a near future after a nuclear holocaust-nuclear winter. There are small colonies of survivors in communities maintained by enigmatic aliens, whom some survivors suspect of triggering the holocaust. The main character is a young woman coming to maturity in a community of survivors in Pennsylvania, a community where many survivors are Quakers. The point of the story is the necessity of pacifism and Quaker respect for life beliefs. The characterization is convincing and the author's depiction of this future is equally convincing. The quality of writing is very good.
                ANALOG - Science Fiction Science Fact - Volume 118, number 6 - June 1998: The Children Star; Little Differences; The Guac Bug; Spindown; Cosmic Corkscrew; My Pal Clunky; Mary had a Little; The Book on the Book
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                  		ANALOG - Science Fiction Science Fact - Volume 118, number 6 - June 1998: The Children Star; Little Differences; The Guac Bug; Spindown; Cosmic Corkscrew; My Pal Clunky; Mary had a Little; The Book on the Book
                  Stanley (editor) (Joan Slonczewski; Paul Levinson; Charles L. Harness; Wolf Read; Michael A. Burstein; Ron Goulart; Dean McLaughlin) Schmidt
                  Manufacturer: Dell Magazines
                  ProductGroup: Book
                  Binding: Paperback
                  ASIN: B000JHHP3O
                  A Door Into Ocean ( Collectors Edition )
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                    		A Door Into Ocean ( Collectors Edition )
                    pictorial endpapers, coloured frontispiece, introduction Pamela Sargent, Artwork Michael Mariano, with Gilt pages edges Joan Slonczewski
                    Manufacturer: Easton Press
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Leather Bound
                    ASIN: B000JD5A3K

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                    1. Smith, Adam
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                    3. Smith, Clark Ashton
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                    5. Smith, E. E. 'Doc'
                    6. Smith, J. M.
                    7. Smith, John
                    8. Smith, L. J.
                    9. Smith, L. Neil
                    10. Smith, Sam

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