Elysium Cycle

3 total works

A Door Into Ocean

by Joan Slonczewski

Published 1 January 1986

Joan Slonczewski's 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.

Brain Plague

by Joan Slonczewski

Published 1 August 2000

"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.

The Children Star

by Joan Slonczewski

Published 15 August 1998

The ruthless plans of Proteus Unlimited, a powerful and greedy corporation, to terraform the planet of Prokaryon threaten to destroy any native intelligence alien life as well as the lives of a colony of orphans who make Prokaryon their home.