Slonczewski's research focuses on the pH (environmental) stress response in Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis using genetic techniques. Since 1984 they have taught at Kenyon College, taking sabbatical leaves at Princeton University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore. They completed a PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1982 and post-doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania studying calcium flux in leukocyte chemotaxis. in biology, magna cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College in 1977. Slonczewski was born in 1956 at Hyde Park, New York and raised in Katonah, New York. They explore ideas of biology, politics, and artificial intelligence at their blog Ultraphyte. Foster and Erik Zinser, they coauthor the textbook, Microbiology: An Evolving Science (W.
Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: A Door into Ocean (1987) and The Highest Frontier (2011). Their books have twice earned the John W. Science Fiction Book Club selection.Joan Lyn Slonczewski is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. Fortunately, this schematic political framework is enlivened by the full-blooded characters who negotiate between the two cultures. In the inevitable confrontation, Shora uses Gandhian techniques of passive resistance to thwart Valedon's troops. It gets by without any government, shuns the mechanical and, knowing its limits, lives in harmony with nature. On the other is Valedon's watery moon Shora, an all-female society based on life sciences and the principle of sharing.
On one side is the planet Valedon, a patriarchal, capitalist, mechanistic and militaristic society. (Particularly ingenious are the clickfliesinsects that collectively serve as both a living computer and a communications network.) But the book has problems with its rigid ideological structure. In her ambitious second SF novel (after Still Forms on Foxfield biology professor Slonczewski has created an intriguing ocean world with its own culture and biological adaptions.
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