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Elysium Cycle eBook Series

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  • A Door Into Ocean

    by Joan Slonczewski ...
    Series Book 1 - Elysium Cycle
    Joan Slonczewski's A Door into Ocean is the novel upon which the author's reputation as an important SF writer principally rests.A ground-breaking work both of feminist SF and of world-building hard SF, it concerns the Sharers of Shora, a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future who are pacifists, highly advanced in biological sciences, and who reproduce by parthenogenesis--there are no ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Children Star

    by Joan Slonczewski ...
    Series Book 3 - Elysium Cycle
    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 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Brain Plague

    by Joan Slonczewski ...
    "In Joan Slonczewski's Brain Plague...a starving artist on the planet Veledon agrees to let a colony of "brain enhancers" occupy her skull. These microscopic creatures live in the brain's outer linings, causing bursts of genius—or irreparable harm. The creatures themselves are like tiny human beings; one of their greatest concerns is getting their young to breed." — The New Yorker ... Read more

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  • Daughter of Elysium

    by Joan Slonczewski ...
    The pristine city of Elysium floats on the water world of Shora, inhabited by "immortals" who have succeeded in unlocking the secrets of life. Outsider Blackbear Windclan wants to share the secret of immortality with his own people, but can he, and the City of Elysium, survive the corruption and decadence that immortality has bred into the ageless society?And what of the consciousness of self ... Read more

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  • The Children Star

    by Joan Slonczewski ...
    Only children can colonize the planet Prokaryon, genetically modified for a world whose chemistry kills unaltered adults. A colony of orphans struggles to survive, and finds the planet hides strange secrets.The Prokaryan landscape is ordered, as if by unseen gardeners, hidden "masters" no human has ever found. The weather behaves as though designed to meet the planet's needs. When fire threatens a ... Read more

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  • Galapagos

    A Novel

    by Kurt Vonnegut ...
    “A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”—The New York Times Book ReviewGalápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different ... Read more

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  • Unquenchable Fire

    by Rachel Pollack ...
    Series Book 81 - S.F. MASTERWORKS
    "Surrealistic, imaginative, wildly original!" - Marion Zimmer Bradley**"...**a unique, fascinating gem with truly fantastic world-building" - Goodreads ReviewerIn a techno-magical world, where magic and myths are as real as shopping malls and television game shows, the people yearn to hear Picture Tellers reciting tales of the Founders.Among the enthralled is Jennifer Mazdan, an ordinary woman. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Shore of Women

    The Classic Work of Feminist Science Fiction

    by Pamela Sargent ...
    A dystopian tale of a power struggle between the sexes in the post-nuclear future, perfect for readers of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin.After a nuclear holocaust, women rule the world. Using advanced technology, they've expelled men from their vast walled cities to roam the countryside in primitive bands, bringing them back only for the purpose of loveless reproduction under the guise of ... Read more

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  • Man Plus

    by Frederik Pohl ...
    A former astronaut turns cyborg for a critical mission to Mars in the Nebula Award–winning sci-fi classic by the author of Gateway.In the not-too-distant future, a global war over natural resources threatens humanity. Nuclear warships position themselves as the American government works feverishly to colonize Mars. Former astronaut Roger Torraway has agreed to undergo a cybernetic transformation ... Read more

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  • The Last Dangerous Visions

    by Harlan Ellison, Harlan Ellison, J. Michael Straczynski, Max Brooks, James S. A. Corey, Richard Peck, Cory Doctorow, Dan Simmons, Cecil Castellucci0, Adrian Tchaikovsky1, various authors2 ...
    Series series The Dangerous Visions Series
    An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series.In 1973 celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with Dangerous Visions and continued with Again, Dangerous Visions. But for reasons undisclosed ... Read more

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  • Blood Music

    by Greg Bear ...
    A genetic engineering breakthrough may portend the destruction of humanity in this cyberpunk novel by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author.This Hugo and Nebula Award finalist follows present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void it left behind. An amazing ... Read more

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  • The Family Tree

    by Sheri S. Tepper ...
    A female cop confronts near-future visitors in this "beautifully realized" feminist sci-fi novel "full of delightful surprises and sparkling wit" (Kirkus Reviews).Police officer Dora Henry is investigating the bizarre murders of three geneticists. Meanwhile, strange things are happening everywhere she turns. Weeds are becoming trees; trees are becoming forests. Overnight, a city is being ... Read more

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