@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)} }