The Children Star - an Elysium Cycle novel (ePub)
The Prokaryan landscape is ordered, as...
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Only children can colonize the planet Prokaryon, genetically modified for a world whose chemistry kills unaltered adults. A colony of orphans struggles to survive, and finds the planet hides strange secrets.
The Prokaryan landscape is ordered, as if by unseen gardeners, hidden "masters" no human has ever found. The weather behaves as though designed to meet the planet's needs. When fire threatens a forest, a rainstorm appears, only to dissipate when the fire is put out.
When a ruthless corporation threatens to terraform Prokaryon, to recreate it for "normal" humans, there is a sudden urgency to find the intelligent life form directing the planet. For only then can the colonists save their world-and reveal unexpected possibilities for the human future.
"A story that is not only exciting but also filled with memorable characters." - Publishers Weekly
A serialization of The Children Star (1998) appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, a magazine known for hard science fiction.
Her most recent book, Brain Plague (2000), depicts a world where intelligent microbes inhabit human brains. The microbial aliens have potential for great good as well as great evil. They evolve in the same way as pathogens such as the AIDS virus or as symbionts such as our digestive bacteria, which help keep humans healthy. Brain Plague tells of a future in which genetic engineering, combined with nanotechnology, can do everything from shaping our bodies to growing enormous buildings for us.
Novels:
Still Forms on Foxfield (1980) (1988)
A Door Into Ocean (1986)
The Wall Around Eden (1989)
Daughter of Elysium (1993)
The Children Star (1998)
Brain Plague (2000)
Awards:
John Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, A Door into Ocean, 1987.
Robert Tomsich Award, for outstanding achievement in research in science, Kenyon College, 2001.
Silver Medalist, National Professor of the Year program, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, Washington DC, 1989.
- Autor: Joan Slonczewski
- 2019, Englisch
- Verlag: Phoenix Pick
- ISBN-10: 1604504129
- ISBN-13: 9781604504125
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.11.2019
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- Grösse: 0.32 MB
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