Joan Slonczewski
Author
Series
Elysium Cycle volume 3
Publication Date
1999
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Caezik SF & Fantasy
Publication Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
"In the hundred-level city of Iridis, human lords recycle diamonds and emeralds down to the Underworld while sentient machines pilot lightcraft and perform surgeries. Microbial minds expand the brains of scientists and artists. The artist Chrys directs her microbes to paint startling installations, design smart buildings, and fix quantum networks. A world-sized virtual intelligence called Transit commissions Chrys to create a whole new city on another...
Author
Series
Elysium Cycle volume 1
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The Sharers of Shora are a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future. They are pacifists, they are highly advanced in biological sciences, and they reproduce by parthenogenesis-because there are no males. Conflict erupts when a militaristic neighboring civilization sends an army to develop their ocean world.
A groundbreaking work both of feminist science fiction and of world-building, hard science fiction, A Door into Ocean is the novel...