The Children Star (Elysium Cycle) - Softcover

Slonczewski, Joan

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9780812568622: The Children Star (Elysium Cycle)

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ISBN 10: 0812568621 ISBN 13: 9780812568622

Publisher: Tor Science Fiction, 1999

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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 and plausible world-building fun from an SF writer to watch.

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"This novel's fireworks in the final third admirably justify its long, slow fuse." --The New York Times

"Slonszewski, a noted biologist, has written a novel that features enough absorbing material on genetics and planetary ecology to satisfy and aficionado of hard SF. At the same time, she tackles a wide range of moral issues, from overpopulation to ecological responsibility and the ethics of machine intelligence. Remarkably, Slonczewski accomplishes all of this in a story that is not only exciting but also filled with memorable characters, human, alien, and sentient machine." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

About the Author:

Joan Slonczewski lives in Gambier, Ohio and teaches biology at Kenyon College.

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