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The Highest Frontier

Joan Slonczewski (Goodreads Author)

3.43 · Rating details · 434 ratings · 110 reviews

One of the most respected writers of hard SF, it has been more than ten years since Joan Slonczewski's last novel. Now she returns with a spectacular tour de force of the college of the future, in orbit. Jennifer Ramos Kennedy, a girl from a rich and politically influential family (a distant relation descended from the famous Kennedy clan), whose twin brother has died in a ...more

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Aug 17, 2011 Stefan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: advance-reading-copy, science-fiction, far-beyond-reality-review

It’s been about a decade since Brain Plague, Joan Slonczewski’s last novel, came out, but I’d bet good money that more people remember the author for a novel that’s by now, unbelievably, already 25 years old — the wonderful and memorable A Door into Ocean, which won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and which Jo Walton wrote about on Tor.com here.

Now, ten years after her last novel, Joan Slonczewski returns with The Highest Frontier, another insightful explorati ...more

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Mar 31, 2020 Camelia Rose rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, dystopia

A GR friend says nowadays dystopian science fictions read like non-fictions. I agree, and The Highest Frontier is one of them.

The story is set 90 years in the future. At a glance, the future world looks good, technologically and biologically advanced. Humans have built sustainable habitats in the earth's lower orbit; cyborgs are every day existence; HIV has been tamed to fight diseases; genetic engineering everywhere, even in humans; human brains can be connected to virtual network through "bra ...more

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Oct 15, 2011 Sarah rated it it was amazing

Shelves: social-issues, arc-or-review-copy, tor, coming-of-age, scifi, read-in-2011

4.5/5 stars

Despite the minor frustrations some readers might find regarding biology speak and some confusing concepts that take time to figure out, The Highest Frontier is quite an amazing, thought provoking book about a dystopian earth and how society has evolved to fit that vision. Slonczewski’s world is vibrant and well realized. Every detail of her future vision is well thought out in riveting detail. The plot is tight and quickly flowing and Jenny is a wonderful character to follow. Many re ...more

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Oct 12, 2011 Elliott Bäck rated it really liked it

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I would give it 5 stars, but for the endless repetition of "DIRG" and "amyloid". ...more

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Jul 23, 2015 Jessica Strider rated it really liked it

The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski

Pros: interesting protagonist; fascinating world-building; thought provoking concepts

Cons: fair amount of repetition, especially at the beginning; several unexplained concepts and items, including one important to the plot

Jennifer Ramos Kennedy’s culture source was her great-grandmother, President Rosa Schwartz. A few months after a family tragedy she’s setting out for Frontera, a university on an orbiting space station. She chose it both because a family The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski

Pros: interesting protagonist; fascinating world-building; thought provoking concepts

Cons: fair amount of repetition, especially at the beginning; several unexplained concepts and items, including one important to the plot

Jennifer Ramos Kennedy’s culture source was her great-grandmother, President Rosa Schwartz. A few months after a family tragedy she’s setting out for Frontera, a university on an orbiting space station. She chose it both because a family friend runs the school but also because it’s free of many of the things plaguing Earth: mosquitos carrying disease, risk of flood and methane quakes, the expanding Death Belt, and the need for DIRG bodyguards. But university life isn’t quite what she expected: her teachers are all a little crazy, her roommate is weird and has an unhealthy affiliation for ultraphytes, the alien plants that crave salt and spread from their landing site in Utah to be a scourge on the world, her slanball coach wants her well rested, a hard thing when she’s volunteering for the understaffed EMS, and there’s so much reading and work to do for classes.

Meanwhile, she’s knee deep in helping the Unity party win the next Presidential election. Jenny doesn’t understand how the Centrist Firmament belief is so strong when people live in space! But things on Earth have reached the point that if change doesn’t come soon, it’ll be too late for the planet. And yet the Centrists want to expand the solar array that’s expanding the Death Belt, intending for people to leave earth in the coming Rapture, relocating to other space stations. Stations that couldn’t possibly hold even a portion of the people on Earth.

And it turns out that Frontera isn’t as free of Earthly disasters as she was led to believe.

There’s very little exposition. You’re thrown into the novel with limited explanations of what things are and how the world has changed from what we currently know. While it’s an entirely character driven novel, something I’m not generally keen on, my interest never waned. There are plot points that pull the story into a thought provoking conclusion, but for the most part the book follows Jenny through her days, questioning the world and the politics that run it.

As a scion of a political family, Jenny knows politics, making her an excellent character to follow. Through her mother and conjoined twin aunts, she’s connected to the upcoming Presidential election; she helps when one of her professor’s runs for mayor; sees the struggle with personnel and supplies as she volunteers for EMS, and more. She also takes two politics courses, one on Teddy Roosevelt and the other on Aristotle and democracy, the lectures for which come up often in the text. The book’s ending questions how politics is done, and if it’s possible to fix a broken system.

The second point of view character, Dylan Chase, is President of the university, and through him we see the difficulties of managing his staff and securing sufficient financing. We also see him dealing with student problems: alcoholism, printer disease hacks, assault, and addiction.

The world-building is top notch: Spanish colloquialisms, tax playing at casinos, unique fashion trends, amyloid (sewage processed by hab shell microbes that’s used to ‘print’ everything from food to clothing to the shelters everyone lives in), the anthrax cables that transport ships between Frontera and Earth, Toynet, Kessler debris, I could go on. The sport of slanball is pretty cool too.

The supporting cast is wide and varied, though it focuses on Jenny’s family, a few professors, close students (including the players of her slanball team) and some of Dylan’s contacts (for his POV scenes). Jenny’s experiences at the school are also varied, from class work to parties to helping build houses for colonists.

The first few chapters contain a fair amount of repetition, especially with regards to Jenny’s family. Which makes it all the more strange that other concepts and terms are left unexplained. You figure out what DIRGs are pretty quick, but I don’t remember the acronym being explained. Similarly, Jenny notices an object on one of her teacher’s desks that affects the plot. She brings it up to another character, implying she knows the relevance of the object, but it’s not until the end of the book that as a reader I figured out what the object was and what it meant.

If you like a lot of character development and world-building in your science fiction, this is a highly entertaining, and sometimes thought provoking, read. ...more

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Sep 19, 2013 Wealhtheow rated it liked it

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Jenny Ramos Kennedy is the heir to two presidential families and a great deal of wealth. After her charming and extroverted twin dies, Jenny feels overwhelmed by the expectations of the world. Seeking to escape them, and to flee her fears of the increasingly frequent natural disasters on Earth, Jenny decides to go to college on a spacehub. There, her botany experiments, social life, and the upcoming elections all create a situation in which Jenny may either take the easy path of non-resistance, ...more

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May 04, 2012 Joshua Zucker rated it really liked it

Good fun, with some good drama and a whole bunch of subplots.

Something about it felt a little odd, like I was walking on the surface of something much deeper, but the characters weren't giving me glimpses into what was going on. Maybe I should say that the characters didn't feel as real as they should; despite the protagonist's point of view, it often felt like it was the narration of a plot and she never really FELT things, only DID things.

Still, a somewhat updated, rather Heinlein-esque story, ...more

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Nov 26, 2018 Liz Henry rated it it was amazing

I love this book and think it's hilarious. No one mentions the humor! Well, as far as a book about facing disasters can be funny, it is. I also love that so many of the characters end up revealing different disabilities -- asking for and getting accommodations. There are super clear echoes of Hurricane Katrina here so if you are interested in people's responses to disaster (both long-unfolding climate disasters and short term crisis) you will get a good hard look at disabled university students ...more

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Jan 05, 2012 Vicki rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi-fantasy, did-not-want-to-finish

I could not get into this book, so I will not be finishing it. I found it very off putting by all it's weird scientific technologies. Oh, well, we can't love them all. ...more

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Aug 01, 2019 Rachel rated it liked it

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This was between 3 and 4 stars for me. I liked it enough that I will read more of the author's books, but didn't love it--or did I? Right after this, I read a YA book about young people of the same age, and The Highest Frontier is ridiculously better written.

Our heroine, Jenny, is the scion of politically-prominent families who have contributed several American presidents. She has relatives in the current presidential race on both sides, and that race is a major plot element. There is a definite This was between 3 and 4 stars for me. I liked it enough that I will read more of the author's books, but didn't love it--or did I? Right after this, I read a YA book about young people of the same age, and The Highest Frontier is ridiculously better written.

Our heroine, Jenny, is the scion of politically-prominent families who have contributed several American presidents. She has relatives in the current presidential race on both sides, and that race is a major plot element. There is a definite difference in the two parties, Unity and Centrist. The Centrists, and a high percentage of Americans, believe in kind of crazy Christian ideas, some (like the Rapture) similar to real-life beliefs and one major one about the Firmament--they believe that the stars are pasted on something solid out there. And this is a culture with space travel, all the way out to Jupiter. The Unity party is more concerned with the environment; Earth is suffering from global warming, an alien kind-of-mobile-weed that can be deadly, and various other crises. But Unity has to make a lot of compromises to have a chance at winning the election.

The book is set at a college in a space habitat orbiting the Earth, owned by Ohio. The college shares the hab with colonists, most of whom are fundamentalist Christian types, but not unfriendly towards the students.

The story is mostly from Jenny's viewpoint (there's also the viewpoint of the head of the college, who is a relative of hers). She comes up to the college for her freshman year. Her big interests are slanball, a popular sport where players move the ball with their minds, and plants. She makes a new best friend, who turns out to be there because she's a hacker and is banned from earth, has a roommate who's very odd, and finds a boyfriend who is unfortunately not gene-engineered like her. Lots of adventures and cool technology - the Toynet is a bunch of steps up in virtual reality from where we are now, and anthrax and amyloid are used to fabricate/print out all kinds of things).

I was a bit put off by all the religion, but it was intrinsic to the story. All in all, a fun book. ...more

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Aug 21, 2011 Ove rated it it was amazing

What If You Believe Your Roommate Is An Alien?

This is a story about a young girl going to college so it includes teenage love, dealings with teachers and unruly fraternity boys, the whole coming of age thing. But that is the simple part what if you believe your roommate is an alien? Or that your professor is trying to brainwash you? Or that you fear the space station will be flooded? Glad to know you are not crazy?

Joan Slonczewski is new to me so I did not have any preconceptions beyond the blur What If You Believe Your Roommate Is An Alien?

This is a story about a young girl going to college so it includes teenage love, dealings with teachers and unruly fraternity boys, the whole coming of age thing. But that is the simple part what if you believe your roommate is an alien? Or that your professor is trying to brainwash you? Or that you fear the space station will be flooded? Glad to know you are not crazy?

Joan Slonczewski is new to me so I did not have any preconceptions beyond the blurb which made me think of a strong girl going to college on a space station possible with some aliens involved.

Jenny comes across a sweet easy-to-like main character. She is a spawn of the Ramos Kennedy family which are deep into the politics of the time, on both sides. The political part felt a bit too true and reflects things easy to imagine of our own time. I am talking from the far north of Scandinavia here.

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. Yes there are small mini-elephants in Jenny’s room now and then but I am talking about the aliens. Earth is to a large part devastated by ecological calamities but on top of that it is being infested by alien RNA based life, mostly as a thick layer over the Great Lakes but they are changing fast much like viruses. The Ultraphytes or Ultras are important to the story and the whole series. Jenny’s parallel between smallpox decimating the Indians even before they saw a white man and the Ultra was fascinating and a bit scary.

I like reading about Jenny dealing with it all and doing ordinary teenage things too. The ordinary things make the futuristic world more tangible. And there lots of fascinating futuristic concept to take in. They have printers that can print out almost anything including real viruses. Hacks are frequently life-threatening and outbreaks of new tailor-made diseases are common. People don’t pay taxes any more they are Taxplayers and gamble at a casino instead and the surplus fund the government. Some of the names of technologies and gadgets feel a bit juvenile like Toynet and calling bears for teddies. Teenagers of today would never use that kind of vocabulary but many things might change in a hundred years.

Jenny also does sports. She plays Slanball the game of mind force (See Slan a novel by A E Van Vogt about telepaths). It is a bit like that game in Harry Potter.

Joan is a microbiologist with teaching experience and that comes across in her writing. I particularly liked the way she used virtual worlds for teaching and anthrax for building the space elevator. It has been a pleasure to read this new-to-me author. Her last novel came out more than ten years ago and this is the first novel in the Frontera Cycle so I hope it doesn’t take another ten years to write the next one because I want to read it and read it soon. The story has a young adult feel to it but worked well for me at my age. It is also stand alone if that is what you prefer.

Joan told me that the Frontera Cycle will continue with Jenny. She visits Cuba, and discovers that ultraphytes have evolved to grow in the ocean–but what are they up to? Meanwhile, back at Frontera for her sophomore year, the college faces an uncertain future because the casino is losing money–and proposes an alarming solution.

The Highest Frontier get my strong recommendation. ...more

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Mar 20, 2015 Catherine Siemann rated it really liked it

Academics in literature departments write novels about academics, usually satirical. Academics in science departments possibly write hard science fiction. Slonczewski, chair of the biology department at Kenyon College, has written something that's both, and political satire besides.

As far as plot and characterization goes, it's decent but not exceptional. However, the narrative successfully plays with multiple strands of speculation, ranging from genetic engineering and 3D printing to climate ch Academics in literature departments write novels about academics, usually satirical. Academics in science departments possibly write hard science fiction. Slonczewski, chair of the biology department at Kenyon College, has written something that's both, and political satire besides.

As far as plot and characterization goes, it's decent but not exceptional. However, the narrative successfully plays with multiple strands of speculation, ranging from genetic engineering and 3D printing to climate change and alternative energy, the impact of the Internet on our everyday lives and the unwillingness of politicians to take an actual stand on anything, religion in its various aspects (in a future with space stations, gene spliced babies and a conjoined-twin presidential candidate, there's also been a resurgence of fundamentalist heliocentrism, while at the same time one of the book's most positive characters is a gay Catholic/Episcopal priest who's married to the college president).

The book's protagonist, Jennifer Ramos Kennedy, is good at almost everything, but, as the scion of a privileged political family, she's been genetically engineered to be that way. There's a potentially star-crossed relationship with a naturally-born scholarship student, but that is only one strand of the narrative, not its center. Politics, as well as the protagonist's coming of age, are more central. The most troubling thing about the book is a campus rape which is swept under the carpet a bit too easily -- the character suffers but moves on fairly quickly, and the reader is denied any closure, as the perpetrators are expelled rather than brought to trial. It would have been better to have left that out, if it wasn't going to be given its due. There were also some scientific references I couldn't puzzle out, like the anthrax strands which were used to transport people and property from Earth to the Frontera space station and back, or the medical uses of HIV. There was a lot more extrapolation, however, that the nonspecialist reader could follow quite easily.

I heard Slonczewski speak at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (2015), where she was one of the guests of honor, and she was witty and knowledgeable. Other reviewers have suggested this is one of her weaker books; if that's true, I quite look forward to her best.
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Feb 12, 2012 Crystal rated it liked it

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I made it about halfway through this book. I was looking for some new SF to try, which is unusual for me, and so I sifted through my "to read" shelf for something that looked a little different. This one certainly fits the bill. After reading reviews on Amazon and elsewhere, I was aware that many found the book lacking in plot but well written, and for me I usually prefer the latter over the former. Unfortunately, the complete lack of plot got on my nerves and I decided to put down the book when ...more

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Dec 22, 2012 Pamela rated it really liked it

Shelves: recently-read-science-fiction

If you're in the mood for science fiction jam-packed with speculation, ideas, and a lively and often satirical wit, I recommend Joan Slonczewski’s John W. Campbell Award winner The Highest Frontier, which Tor brought out in 2011. You get a space elevator, an alien invasion that has made parts of Earth nearly uninhabitable, a space habitat powered by microbes, a realistically disorienting and all-pervasive Internet-like system (Toynet), a troubled and intelligent protagonist (Jennifer Kennedy Ram ...more

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Oct 17, 2012 kvon rated it really liked it

Shelves: book-club

College in space. Lots of floated ideas about biology, politics, and history. Commentary on current issues--instead of creationists, fundamentalists focus on the biblical idea of the Firmament and the
iconology of Noah's Ark saving the select and holy. And instead of inevitable climate change is a spreading adapatable alien organism. The internet (toynet) is more pervasive, and private virtual worlds (think second life) are more alluring. Jenny is a shy scion of a politically major family (think ...more

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Jan 10, 2012 Alexa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This was a perfect read for me. Slonczewski throws you right into her built world with no interpretation at all; just the intellectual challenge I adore. (Oh how I hate long-winded patronizing exposition!) It is a multi-layered satire of politics, academia, and environmental devastation. Her ability to poke fun at issues that deeply concern her amazes me. What truly caught my attention though is her exploration of gender roles. This is a story about a very shy young woman who prefers to work in ...more

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Nov 08, 2011 Tamlyn rated it did not like it

Shelves: tried-but-not-finished

From the dust-cover, I thought this might be my kind of book. I like futuristic novels and novels about colleges so this should have been my cup of tea. But I could only read about 10 pages and got so lost in all the verbiage and "newness" of the world the character lived in that I lost interest. Back to the library! ...more

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Jan 23, 2012 Cicely rated it really liked it

Part hilarious tongue-in-cheek political/academic satire, part contemplation of gender roles, part touching coming-of-age story, all set in the distant future with a delightful plot and characters. Delicious! (And it even has a riff on the dangers of early weaning!)

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Dec 25, 2015 Stephanie Foust rated it really liked it

A coming-of -age novel set in the 22nd century but it is so much more.The mayoral & presidential races parody current politics but this book foretells a future with great ecological destruction amid great scientific discoveries.Very highly recommended.

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Nov 25, 2011 Sarah S rated it liked it

Shelves: science-fiction

Presents some interesting ideas about politics and science, but the writing is shaky enough that I almost put the book down after 40 pages.

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Nov 25, 2017 Peter Goodman rated it liked it

Shelves: science-fiction, contemporary-fiction, fiction

“The Highest Frontier,” by Joan Slonczewski (Tor, 2011). Another book written by a scientist which takes the science beyond where I’d like to go. In this case, Slonczewski is chair of biology at Kenyon College, and the center of the book is about DNA, RNA, cellular biology and evolution. It’s set in a not-too-distant future where human civilization on earth is slowly being swallowed by global warming (more and more of the planet is underwater), but AI seems to be advancing exponentially. Everyon
“The Highest Frontier,” by Joan Slonczewski (Tor, 2011). Another book written by a scientist which takes the science beyond where I’d like to go. In this case, Slonczewski is chair of biology at Kenyon College, and the center of the book is about DNA, RNA, cellular biology and evolution. It’s set in a not-too-distant future where human civilization on earth is slowly being swallowed by global warming (more and more of the planet is underwater), but AI seems to be advancing exponentially. Everyone apparently has either computers implanted in their brains or have developed telepathy: they open windows in their minds to see and communicate with dozens of people at once; they can send “brainkisses” to one another. The US is divided into two main parties: Centrists, who among other things believe in a biblically literal world in which, despite space travel, the earth is still the center of the universe and the stars are part of a God-created Firmament; and Unity, which wants to expand to the planets, accept evolution and scientific evidence, and is generally forward looking. The electorate is split evenly between them, and elections are usually decided by fractions of a point. (There is a lot about polling and wondering whether the elections are real at all.) There are almost-self-supporting space colonies called spacehabs, one of which contains Frontera College, which our heroine Jennifer Ramos Kennedy is about to enter as a freshman. She comes from a famous, powerful political family (Kennedy, get it?). There is a wild card: the ultras, extraterrestrial creatures that emit cyanide and seem to be slowly spreading through the world. As you can tell, this is a very imaginative, complicated world, and I don’t feel like going through the plot, other than to say that I was not drawn very deeply into it, or the characters. This is another novel where there is a deeply existential threat---the ultras could wipe out all humanity---but no one seems to be all that worried about it. And all the talk about RNA and DNA etc interested me less and less.

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Oct 20, 2020 Bob rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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This was a disappointing read. I read two of her previous novels some time ago and enjoyed them so it seemed reasonable that I would likely enjoy this one as well. However, after I read nearly half the book, I had to admit that this one just didn’t hold my attention. I kept waiting for a strong plot line to kick in to motivate me but, as of halfway, it didn’t happen. I did enjoy her continued use of biologically built buildings and that she expanded this to computer printing of pretty much anyth ...more

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Jul 26, 2017 Unwisely rated it did not like it

Shelves: science-fiction, 2017, not-finished

I am a sucker for a pull-quote about Heinlein, but I got less far in this book than the last one I failed out on (p. 264, ca ~60%). (I was going to make a joke comparing this to one of the terrible Heinleins, but I finished all of those.)

The set up could've been interesting but I didn't really care about any of the characters or the situation and bleh.

There was one pretty good jab about the protagonist (freshman in college) who had never gotten a grade below an A+++ before, but, man, couldn't m ...more

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Feb 27, 2017 Silyara rated it it was amazing

Shelves: science-fiction, bought-at-wiscon

Extremely well written, thoughtful, and complex. It's a diverse and living world populated with flawed three dimensional characters. Science fiction that feels real like our world, rich in the details that make life life, where some have changed and look unfamiliar but feel familiar. It doesn't pull punches with the commentary its themes make toward everyone and all the choices we make. ...more

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Sep 23, 2018 Whitney rated it did not like it

Shelves: dnf

I can see the appeal, but for me, this book just screamed, "trying too hard."

The sentence structure/dialogue/ideas were all fine, and seemed put together well, but this was a case of so much info dump without explaining, that it grew exhausting trying to read. I liked the idea, which makes this a letdown, since I couldn't get past the first fourth. ...more

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Jun 22, 2019 Beth rated it really liked it

Kind of a coming of age/ going away to school story. Jenny is the heir to one of America's most famous political families but she wants to study biology. She starts college at the world's first university in space and then has to navigate a bunch of weird events while keeping up with classes, playing a sport, and dealing with new friends. There's also an alien terrorist and a flood. ...more

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Dec 10, 2019 liz rated it it was amazing

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Just like every Slonczewski I’ve read so far, this was a very odd, compelling, and thought-provoking read. Her environmental angles are always both sharp and nuanced. Plenty of interesting ideas about the future without tedious Now I Am Worldbuilding passages. Highly recommend if the summary sounds good to you.

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Jul 15, 2017 Laura rated it liked it

This one didn't really hit me. It feels kind of YA. It's just not what I expected. ...more

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Apr 24, 2018 Micaelasofia rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: april-2018-tbr

Too many characters and too little description, it gets confusing!
it´s too bad though it´s a facinating concept!

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Mar 02, 2019 Dan Henne rated it liked it · review of another edition

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The middle was little long but an interesting look at the future.

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Joan Lyn Slonczewski is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. Her books have twice earned the John W. Campbell award for best science fiction novel: The Highest Frontier (2012) and A Door into Ocean (1987). With John W. Foster she coauthors the textbook, Microbiology: An Evolving Science (W. W. Norton).