Joan Slonczewski
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in Hyde Park, New York, The United States
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A Door Into Ocean (Elysium Cycle, #1)
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1986
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The Hard SF Renaissance
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2002
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Brain Plague (Elysium Cycle, #4)
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2000
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The Highest Frontier
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2011
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The Children Star (Elysium Cycle, #3)
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1986
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Daughter of Elysium (Elysium Cycle, #2)
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1993
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Wall Around Eden
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1989
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Still Forms on Foxfield
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1980
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The Helix and the Hard Road
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2013
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The Children Star.
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“What the devil is 'wordsharing'? Does the word for 'speak' mean 'listen' just as well? If I said, 'Listen to me!' you might talk, instead."
"What use is the one without the other? It took me a long time to see this distinction in Valan speech."
Spinel thought over the list of 'share forms': learnsharing, worksharing, lovesharing. "Do you say 'hitsharing,' too? If I hit a rock with a chisel, does the rock hit me?"
"I would think so. Don't you feel it in your arm?"
He frowned and sought a better example; it was so obvious, it was impossible to explain. "I've got it: if Beryl bears a child, does the child bear Beryl? That's ridiculous."
"A mother is born when her child comes."
"Or if I swim in the sea, does the sea swim in me?"
"Does it not?"
Helplessly he thought, She can't be that crazy. "Please, you do know the difference, don't you?"
"Of course. What does it matter?”
― A Door Into Ocean
"What use is the one without the other? It took me a long time to see this distinction in Valan speech."
Spinel thought over the list of 'share forms': learnsharing, worksharing, lovesharing. "Do you say 'hitsharing,' too? If I hit a rock with a chisel, does the rock hit me?"
"I would think so. Don't you feel it in your arm?"
He frowned and sought a better example; it was so obvious, it was impossible to explain. "I've got it: if Beryl bears a child, does the child bear Beryl? That's ridiculous."
"A mother is born when her child comes."
"Or if I swim in the sea, does the sea swim in me?"
"Does it not?"
Helplessly he thought, She can't be that crazy. "Please, you do know the difference, don't you?"
"Of course. What does it matter?”
― A Door Into Ocean
“That was the way to start, he knew: with unsureness. Only when the mind cracked open its own worldly certainties could a glimpse of light appear.”
― The Children Star
― The Children Star
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The Pharmacist by Rachelle Atalla (368 pp)
Eversion by Alastair Reynolds (432 pp)
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The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook (384 pp)
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Trinity by Patrick Morgan (320 pp)
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