"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.
- ISBN10 0812579143
- ISBN13 9780812579147
- Publish Date 15 March 2001 (first published 1 August 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 November 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tor Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 384
- Language English