"Microbiology: An Evolving Science" promotes a clear understanding of this rapidly advancing field in two distinctive ways. First, an emphasis on current research, genomics and molecular genetics enables students to learn how microbiologists think as they master the discipline's foundational topics. Second, a stunning and consistently executed art ...
The Sharers, a race of women living on the planet Shora, who reproduce by parthogenesis without males, are suddenly faced with the technological and cultural invasion of men from space.
An intelligent microbe race is colonizing the human race, and each colony has its own personality, good or bad. In some people, they are brain enhancers, and in others, a fatal brain plague, a living addiction. This is the story of one woman's psychological and moral struggle to adjust to having an ambitious colony of microbes living permanently ...
Slonczewski uses her expertise as a biologist to create a novel of postnuclear ecology, which is at the same time a political science fiction novel and a tale of alien invasion.
A group of children, genetically altered to survive on a remote planet, fall prey to corporate entities who decide to terraform the planet, creating conditions under which the children could not survive. Meanwhile, though years of research suggest otherwise, the planet may be under the control of alien forces. A "New York Times" Notable Book for ...
"Masterful story"-Library Journal **** "Magnificently detailed"-Chicago Sun Times **** 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 ...
Only children can colonize the planet Prokaryon, genetically modified for a world whose chemistry kills unaltered adults. A colony of orphans struggle to survive, and find 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 ...
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