Boskone 51, NESFA's Regional Science Fiction Convention

Joan Slonczewski

Joan Slonczewski Joan Slonczewski researches bacteria in extreme environments and writes award-winning SF about future medicine, revolutions, and alien sexualities. In The Highest Frontier (Tor Books, 2011; Campbell Award) a Cuban-American student goes to college at an orbital space habitat protected from alien invasion by Homeworld Security. Slonczewski’s earlier Campbell-award winner, A Door into Ocean, creates a world covered entirely by ocean, inhabited by an all-female race of humans who use genetic engineering to defend their unique ecosystem.

Home Page: http://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/slonc.htm
Web Site: http://ultraphyte.com/
Facebook: joan.slonczewski

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