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  1. A Door Into Ocean (Elysium Cycle) by Joan Slonczewski, 2000-01-01

61. Joan Slonczewski : : The Science In Science Fiction
joan slonczewski, The Science in Science Fiction Making It Work, HOME,IdeasWhere to find them? Where do you get those ideas? That
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JOAN SLONCZEWSKI The Science in Science Fiction: Making It Work HOME IdeasWhere to find them?
"Where do you get those ideas?" That is the number one question I get as a writer of science fiction. The next question is, how do you make science ideas into a story? Most important, how do you extrapolate from known science to make it convincing and intriguing?
First it's important to realize that there are various kinds of science fiction today, in which science functions differently. Michael Crichton builds a thriller around technical details, even tables of data; character and "art" are less emphasized. Ursula Le Guin writes anthropological science fiction, emphasizing the social sciences and subtleties of character. A recent trend is the "future historical" novel such as Maureen McHugh's China Mountain Zhang, in which scientific extrapolation provides details of a vivid future setting for everyday people. My own work explores the interactions between science and society, and the human beings caught between themeven when, as in A Door into Ocean, we are not sure at first who is "human."
As a writer, you need to decide what role (if any) science extrapolation can play in your work. In fact, much of what is labeled "science fiction" today could as easily be labeled fantasy; and if your own style is distinctive enough, that may be the route for you. On the other hand, to take science seriously requires special attention. I can suggest some approaches which work for me.

62. Sub Verbis: Reader: Book Lists: WisCon
Jan Siegel, Prospero's Children. joan slonczewski, Brain Plague. Nancy Springer,Plumage. slonczewski, joan, Daughter of Elysium. slonczewski, joan, Door into Ocean.
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WisCon
WisCon is an annual gathering of feminist science fiction writers and readers held in Madison, Wisconsin. I have attended WisCon for the past six years. It is a great experience for anyone interested in science fiction, feminist or not. Many successful and long published authors in the genre attend regularly as well as new authors, publishers, agents, and editors. Guests in the past have included: Ursula LeGuin, Mary Doria Russell, Sheri Tepper, Charles deLint, Octavia Butler, and many many more. This year's Guest of Honor was Elizabeth Vonarburg. As a writer and (sometimes) a guffawing fanboy, it's a great experience to be able to talk one on one with these writers as well as the other readers. WisCon is also responsible for the birth of the James Tiptree Award , given annually to a work of science fiction that deals with gender issues. The Award is funded in large part by bake sales! This year's Tiptree winner was Molly Gloss for her novel Wild Life Most importantly, I leave WisCon each year with a huge list of authors and titles to add to my MUST READ pile! Below, you'll find my book list from WisCon 25.

63. Sub Verbis: Reader: Book Lists: The Shelf, Part II
Simak, Clifford, Cemetery World. slonczewski, joan, Daughter of Elysium.slonczewski, joan, The Children Star. Sterling, Bruce, Crystal Express.
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the shelf, part II
"Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life."
-Giorgos Seferis Of course, I have literally thousands of books still to read. Below is a small sample of the titles creeping their way up the "to read" stacks. I would appreciate your suggestions . I'll gladly add them to my list. fiction science fiction drama academia ... history Fiction author title Ackroyd, Peter Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem Ackroyd, Peter Milton in America Ackroyd, Peter Chatterton Ackroyd, Peter First Light Cowan, James A Mapmaker's Dream DeLillo, Don

64. BUY.COM - Home A Door Into Ocean Joan Slonczewski
Author joan slonczewski Format Paperback ISBN 0312876521 Pages 416 PublishDate 11/1/2000 Publisher Tor Books Be the first to review this book.
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65. Reading Journal: Brain Plague By Joan Slonczewski
This page is the online reading journal kept while reading the bookBrain Plague by joan slonczewski. It also roundabout way.
http://www.goofedy.homestead.com/BrainPlagueIndex.html
Does the striking portrait on the Pollack cover hint at an ability to mesmerize butterflies? I expand on a bit of speculation. BRAIN PLAGUE JOURNAL Email: Click DaDaisy jDaisy Another page from by Click on the black opal pointing at a date to display its entry. Reading didn't quite offset the mindset triggered on this fateful day. The notes are more disjointed than usual for this type of reading journal. Pending transcription.
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Pending transcription.
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66. Reading Journal: Brain Plague By Joan Slonczewski
This page is the online reading journal kept while reading the bookBrain Plague by joan slonczewski. It way. Last Screen.
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Last Screen Marble #3 10 September 2001
I studied the dust jacket.
Something about its artwork
Is it the butterflies hovering attentively, with their insect eyes lockstepped to the dark, jewel- like, cobalt-colored eyes of what could be the coming story's heroine ?
Is it the odd detached unfocused even feel of the very ivory and very delicate features half hidden behind the unreal redness of her blowing hair?
Or, is it the disturbing drabness of slate-colored sky/ocean spreading above her partially exposed face?
Maybe, just maybe, my own differently wired Dali -esque through my mind as I tried to remember what it was that caused me to choose this title instead of a Featured Selection from the flyer I had received from the Science Fiction Book Club
I found myself repeatedly trying to mix it up with a book I had read as a child.
That book was called SLAN , and it was written by A.E. VanVogt.
It had, even waaaaaaaay back then when I was just beginning to be intrigued with the worlds hidden within books grabbed my imagination with its depiction of reactions to those with telepathic abilities.

67. Joan Slonczewski, SciFiArchive.Com, Sci-Fi Books-by-Author Database, Copyright 1
Click on any title for ordering information. joan slonczewski. ( ). Books ForSale If you don't find your title listed, be sure to send your Want List!
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Hi! You have arrived at one of the 700+ pages at the SciFiArchive Don't miss SciFiArchive Central at InStar artists magazines back to author list: A B C D ... Z SciFiArchive.Com, Sci-Fi Books-by-Author Database, last update 7/13/2002
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68. Science Fiction Authors: S
Key Work Hyperion Cantos. slonczewski, joan. biologist and professor at KenyonCollege in Ohio. Key Work The Door Into Ocean. Smith, EE Doc 18901965.
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Science Fiction Authors:
S Sheldon, Racoona Shelley, Mary Shute, Nevill Simmons, Dan ... Sturgeon, Theodore Sheldon , Racoona

pseudonym for Alice Sheldon who also wrote as James Tiptree, Jr.
Shelley , Mary
Key Work Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus More information Shute, Nevill Key Work On the Beach
(1957), one of the first novels to portray the earth in the aftermath of nuclear war. Simmons, Dan Key Work Hyperion Cantos Slonczewski, Joan biologist and professor at Kenyon College in Ohio. Key Work: The Door Into Ocean Smith, E.E. "Doc"
Father of the space operacops and robbers or cowboys and Indians in space. Key Works:
  • Skylark of Space (1928) in Argosy the Gray Lensman series
Stapledon, Olaf
With his writing, Stapledon turned scientific concepts into vast epic prose poems. Key Works
  • Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future Starmaker (1937), his masterpiece

69. Joan Slonczewski Brain Plague
joan slonczewski seems to have a talent for writing good characters, andof spinning a good yarn around them. joan slonczewski Brain Plague.
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Joan Slonczewski : Brain Plague
(Tor Books h/back, August 2000, 384pp, $24.95)
Brain Plague is one of those curiously infuriating books which operate from a basic premise that has you constantly saying "I don't believe this" right the way through, and yet still manages to amuse and even impress with some quality storytelling. Joan Slonczewski seems to have a talent for writing good characters, and of spinning a good yarn around them. However, with Brain Plagu e, I was put off by the central premise of the book, that a race of intelligent microbes could be introduced into the human brain and happily co-exist there. Nothing terribly original or surprising there, of course, as anyone remembering Greg Bear's early work Blood Music will recall. But Bear's microbial intelligence came from the collective, not the individual. Where Slonczewski differs is in giving each microbe its own little personality, in endowing the bugs with individual personhood, if you like. Makes for a different kind of storyline, for sure, as though the main protagonist has a million voices in her head, all giving her advice. When the microbes not only behave as tiny, fast-living humans (even down to setting up schools and nightclubs in the heroine's brain), but positively demand to have the same rights as humans, then the faintest suspicion is raised that Slonczewski may have pushed her idea just beyond the outrageous and well into the unbelievable range. Where Bear managed to raise an awful possibility from irresponsible tampering in microbial biology, Slonczewski tries to convince us that it could all be jolly good fun really. Sorry, I'm not buying it. Personally, I have enough trouble with just the one voice in my head, let alone a whole host of others. The story is well enough told, but falls at the first in the credibility stakes.

70. Bookshare.org - Books By Author
Title. Please log in. Books by joan slonczewski. Here is a list of our books by joan slonczewski . There are 2 books by this author in our collection.
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71. Www.umass.edu/microbio/rashist/year.2001.txt
Beginning Jan 1, 2001 ++++From joan slonczewski slonczewski@kenyon.edu Subject
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Beginning Jan 1, 2001: ++++++++++++++ From: Joan Slonczewski Subject: Biomolecules at Kenyon College Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 17:39:13 -0500 To: rasmol@lists.umass.edu The "Biomolecules at Kenyon College" site has been revised and has added several new tutorials by students from my class this semester. We would greatly appreciate any feedback and suggestions, especially notification of errors or need for improved design. Thanks also for all the help in responding to our questions; it made a world of difference for the students in the course, and made them feel excited about their projects. Joan Slonczewski http://www2.kenyon.edu/depts/biology/BMB/chime.htm rasmol-+ To change your address, unsubscribe, view previous messages/history, receive messages as weekly digests, or for any other information about the RasMol EMail List, please go to http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/raslist.htm rasmol X-Accept-Language: en References: ++++++++++++++ From: Joan Slonczewski ++++++++++++++ From: Eric Martz Subject: Fwd: Plug-in detection Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 13:14:12 -0500 To: rasmol@lists.umass.edu >Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 12:28:26 +0100 (MEZ) >From: Andreas Bohne

72. Gender Inn: Alphabetischer Suchindex
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73. SFWA Members' Pages S-U
Silver, Steven H. Silverberg, Robert; Simmons, Wm. Mark; Simner, JanniLee; Sipos, Thomas M. Sixbury, Glenn; slonczewski, joan; Smeds, Dave;
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74. E221, Science Fiction, Dr. O'Conner
with many diversified viewpoints. slonczewski, joan L. The Handmaid'sTale. Kenyon Review v. ns8 (1986) 1204. Return to O'Conner's
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E221: Science Fiction,
Dr. Michael O'Conner
[E221 Home] [Syllabus] [Assignments/Grading] [Attendance] ... [Student Posts] Critical Essay SummaryExample Two In an essay appearing in the Kenyon Review , Joan L. Slonczewski critiques two novels which are based on extraordinary visions of women whose lives are devoted to service. These novels, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Magnificent Spinster by May Sarton, both raise interesting questions dealing with the role of women in society. Slonczewski both summarizes and gives opinions on the content of these novels. Focusing on The Handmaid's Tale , points are made dealing with the role of feminism, the theme of sexuality, the role of the Christian church, the subjugation of women, and the dangerous trends that are present in contemporary American society. The review begins by simply summarizing the important events that occur during the novel The Handmaid's Tale , in which a dystopia of the future is created where a cult based on religion rules the United States, which is now known as the Republic of Gilead. This society is plagued with widespread infertility, resulting from previous pollution of the environment, diseases that have been spread sexually, as well as other mistakes of the modern world. The women who have remained fertile have been summoned to become "handmaids", whose purpose is to bear children for the ruling males. Slonczewski points out that this is similar to the biblical handmaid Bilhah, who served her master Jacob because his wife Rachel was not able to conceive. Atwood's main character, Offred, is leading a difficult life, and the other female characters are working mostly as domestics. The exception is the Aunts, whose job is to train the handmaids and supervise hangings at the Salvaging Wall.

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    77. Ecology/Biology Page Of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
    Two leaders in Science Fiction explorations of Ecology and Biology are FrankHerbert ( Dune ), and joan slonczewski. joan slonczewski. Prof.
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    SCIENCE FICTION about ECOLOGY and BIOLOGY
    If You Like This, You'll Like That

    Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide
    ECOLOGY
    May be posted electronically provided that it is transmitted unaltered, in its entirety, and without charge. We examine both works of fiction and important contemporaneous works on non-fiction which set the context for ecological Science Fiction and Fantasy. There are hotlinks here to authors, magazines, films, or television items elsewhere in the Ultimate Science Fiction Web Guide or beyond. Most recently updated: 25 Sep 2000 [28 Kilobytes] Related web page on themes such as Clones, Mutants, Intelligent Animals, Life Undersea , and The End of the World may be found at: If You Like This, You'll Like That [warning: very long text page, about half a megabyte, may load slowly] To find more books by these authors, see: Science Fiction Authors Two leaders in Science Fiction explorations of Ecology and Biology are Frank Herbert ("Dune"), and Joan Slonczewski . Frank has, sadly, passed away (or been recycled). Joan is currently a Professor of Biology at Kenyon College, and is very effectively using Science Fiction books and films as tools for teaching Biology at the college level. Other sources of information on this web page are noted or hotlinked. Some questions we study include:
    • How do living organisms grow and reproduce? (Tribbles, TV:

    78. Vol. 5 No. 3
    Science Fiction/ More than Human/ Bioengineering Science Fiction/ High Tech/ Robots,Cyborgs, and Computers The Children Star slonczewski, joan Tor 0812568621
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    Tor Bilbo Baggins through time and space! This joyful romp through time and space takes norbit, Bailey Beldon from the comforts of his hollowed out asteroid to the ends of the universe when the Farr clone commandeers him to be part of their expedition to find wormhole maps after he finds one sent back by one of their sibs. Murphy has written a rollicking entertaining space opera version of the Hobbit Crime/ Police Detective
    Stabenow, Dana
    Nothing Gold can Stay
    Dutton State trooper Liam Campbell and the love of his life, bush pilot, Wyanet Chouinard become enmeshed in the hunt for a serial killer on the loose in the back country of a late Alaskan summer. Terrific! YA/Contemporary/Problem
    About Face Wood, June Rae Putnam Thirteen year old Glory has only one friend, another parentless teen who lives in the rooming house her grandmother runs just outside the town of Turnback, across from the fair grounds. She is extremely shy because of a large birthmark on her face but really wants another girl to talk to. When the carnival comes to town she watches Marvalene who also turns out to be thirteen and thinks that all town kids hate her because she is a carnie. In three days the two become best friends and uncover secrets they never knew about themselves. A kinder gentler type of old fashioned problem novel.

    79. Alphamusic - Joan Slonczewski
    Translate this page Freitag, den 07. Februar 2003. slonczewski, joan Brain Plague Buch TorBooks VÖ-Datum 3/2001 Bestell-Nr. 0-8125-7914-3 7.65 EUR. 320.
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