Joan Slonczewski

A Cuban-American president's granddaughter goes to college on a space satellite, to escape Earth's invasion by an alien plague. JENNY RAMOS KENNEDY, a student cloned from a Cuban-American president, g...

“[A] dreamy, poetic book . . . very much in the spirit of Dune or Le Guins works.”— San Francisco Examiner Slonczewski creates an all-female nonviolent culture that rea...

"Fascinating, flawlessly developed, meticulously detailed."-Kirkus Reviews **** "In Joan Slonczewski's Brain Plague...a starving artist on the planet Veledon agrees to let a colony of "brain enhance...

Only children can colonize the planet Prokaryon, genetically modified for a world whose chemistry kills unaltered adults. A colony of orphans struggle to survive, and find the planet hides strange sec...

"Masterful story"-Library Journal **** "Magnificently detailed"-Chicago Sun Times **** The pristine city of Elysium floats on the water world of Shora, inhabited by 'immortals' who have succeeded in...