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Joan Slonczewski is the author of seven science fiction novels and two 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
• Frontera: The Highest Frontier, 2011 => coming soon
  
  
• Microbe, 1995
• Tuberculosis bacteria join UN, 2000
  
  
• Brief quotations from Joan Slonczewski's books

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

• 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
• Biographical Blurbs
• Joan Slonczewski's Home Page

On Science in Science Fiction:

• Genomics and Humanity: Science Fiction Perspectives => an essay by Joan Slonczewski
• The Future Biology of Sex: Science Fiction Perspectives => an essay by Joan Slonczewski
• 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
• On Science & Science Fiction => an essay by Kathryn Cramer

On Feminist Science Fiction:

• 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
• Single-Sexed Utopias and Our Two-Sexed Reality => an essay by Susan Stone-Blackburn
• The New Aliens of Science Fiction => Nicola Griffith's essay about gender in SF
• Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Utopia => lots of resources for feminist SF
  

On the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers):

• Quaker Ethos as Science Praxis in Joan Slonczewski’s A Door Into Ocean an essay by Edward F. Higgins
• Quaker Frequently Asked Questions => from the newsgroup soc.religion.quaker
• The Religious Society of Friends => lots of resources for Society of Friends, otherwise known as Quakers

Last modified: July 12, 2010

This page is maintained by Dave Switzer. Feel free to check out his home page. You can also email him at csp@golden.net.