Joan Slonczewskis Spiritual Science Fiction
Discover Joan Slonczewski's spiritual science fiction, from Brain Plague to The Wall Around Eden. Explore thought-provoking books blending biology, faith, and future worlds.
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Daughter of Elysium
by Joan Slonczewski
Bringing her family to the pristine technological world of Elysium in order to avert an interplanetary war, Raincloud Windclan encounters an internal corruption that threatens to destroy the immortal society. Reprint.
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The Children Star
by Joan Slonczewski
A brilliant new SF adventure from the John W. Campbell award winner which marks her return to the universe of A Door Into The Ocean & Daughter of Elysium.
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Brain Plague
by Joan Slonczewski
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.
