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Joan Slonczewski is the author of seven science fiction novels and three short stories:

• Still Forms on Foxfield, 1980
• A Door Into Ocean, 1986
• The Wall Around Eden, 1989
• Daughter of Elysium, 1993
• The Children Star, 1998
• Brain Plague, 2000
• The Highest Frontier, 2011
  
  
• Microbe, 1995
• Tuberculosis bacteria join UN, 2000
• Landfall, 2013
  
  
• Brief quotations from Joan Slonczewski's books

Here you can find out what Joan Slonczewski's up to these days:

• Ultraphyte => Joan Slonzcewski's blog
• Joan Slonczewski's Home Page
• Biographical Blurbs

Interviews with Joan Slonczewki:

• 2014 Interview => from Locus magazine (excerpts online)
• 2013 Interview => by Michael Levy, from The Helix and the Hard Road
• 2011 Interview => by Jeremy L. C. Jones, from Clarkesworld magazine
• 2003 Interview => from Nature magazine
• 1998 Interview => by James Schellenberg & David M. Switzer, from the Challenging Destiny web site
• 1995 Interview => by Eric M. Heideman, from Tales of the Unanticipated magazine

Articles written by Joan Slonczewki:

• The Future Biology of Sex: Science Fiction Perspectives => an essay by Joan Slonczewski (temporarily unavailable)
• Genomics and Humanity: Science Fiction Perspectives => an essay by Joan Slonczewski (temporarily unavailable)
• I Have No Time, and I Must Write => an article by Joan Slonczewski, originally published in 1979 and updated in 2013
• Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy: A Biologist's Response => an essay by Joan Slonczewski
• Science in Science Fiction: Making it Work => an essay by Joan Slonczewski

Articles about Joan Sloncewski's work:

• He, She or It: The Cyborg De-Constructs Gender in Post Modern Science Fiction => an essay by Barbara Summerhawk
• "The Kin-dom of God" in Joan Slonczewski's Novels => an essay by Virginia Wolf
• Joan Slonczewski's A Door Into Ocean: Why Feminist Utopians Might Like Science Fiction => an essay by Diane Koester
• Quaker Ethos as Science Praxis in Joan Slonczewski’s A Door Into Ocean => an essay by Edward F. Higgins
• Single-Sexed Utopias and Our Two-Sexed Reality => an essay by Susan Stone-Blackburn

Last modified: March 11, 2014

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