@booklet {6507, title = {The Highest Frontier}, year = {2011}, month = {2011}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Both eutopian and dystopian themes. The novel is set on an Earth and at a college established in orbit around Earth. Earth has undergone massive environmental changes, mostly negative, and equally massive technological changes, mostly presented positively, that people have adjusted to. The protagonist is a young woman from an important political family during her first year at the college. A story set in the same future and clearly from a forthcoming sequel is \“Landfall. From The Blood Star Frontier.\” The Other Half of the Sky. Ed. Athena Andreadis co-edited by Kay Holt (Bennington, VT: Candlemark \& Gleam, 2013): 181-200.\ The female author is a Professor of Biology at Kenyon College specializing in Microbiology, and her biological knowledge is used to great effect \ to create a consistent new environment and biologically based technology.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956)} } @booklet {4472, title = {Daughter of Elysium}, year = {1993}, month = {1993}, publisher = {William Morrow}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Set in same world as her 1986 Door Into Ocean. In this volume the people of Elysium have\ achieved immortality which brings with it complacency and arrogance and the desire of other peoples to steal their secret.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956)} } @booklet {4095, title = {The Wall Around Eden}, year = {1989}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Women\&$\#$39;s Press, 1989.

}, month = {1989}, publisher = {Morrow}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Flawed utopia. A small town is isolated by aliens from a nuclear holocaust and re-learns the skills of a simple life. The next generation begins to see this life as too limiting.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956)} } @booklet {3777, title = {A Door Into Ocean}, year = {1986}, note = {

Collector\&$\#$39;s Edition illus. Michael Mariano and with an \"Introduction\" by Pamela Sargent (v-ix). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992.

}, month = {1986}, publisher = {Arbor House}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Complex feminist and ecological eutopia on an ocean planet with no men that practices cooperation and nonviolence in conflict with a male dominated, authoritarian society that wants to take the knowledge that the women have by force and control the planet. Her eutopian Daughter of Elysium (1993) is also part of her Elysium Cycle as are her non-utopia \“The Children Star.\” Illus. Darryl Elliott in Analog 118. 4 \– 7/8 (April \– July/August 1998): 10-16, 18-59; 10-54; 58-97; 180-218, 220-222; rpt. without the illus. New York: Tor, 1998; and Brain Plague. New York: Tor, 2000.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956)} } @booklet {3203, title = {Still Forms on Foxfield}, year = {1980}, month = {1980}, publisher = {Ballantine Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Eutopia based on Quaker (Society of Friends) beliefs. The novel is concerned with how the society deals with potential conflict with more technologically advanced later settlers.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Joan [Lyn] Slonczewski (b. 1956)} }