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Brain Plague

By: Tor Books

Type: Novel - Hardcover

Product Line: Science Fiction Novels (Tor Books)

MSRP old price: $24.95


Product Info

Title
Brain Plague
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Joan Slonczewski
Publish Year
2000
Pages
384
Dimensions
5.5x8x1.25"
NKG Part #
2147474770
Type
Novel - Hardcover

Description

Brain Plague is the new hard SF novel by Joan Slonczewski, set in the same future universe as her award-winning A Door into Ocean and The Children Star (a New York Times Notable Book). An intelligent microbe race that can live symbiotically in other intelligent beings is colonizing the human race throughout the civilized universe. And each colony of microbes has its own personality, good or bad. In some people, carriers, 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 in her own head. This novel is one of the most powerful and involving SF novels of the year.