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Brain Plague (Elysium Cycle)
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312867188
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0312867182
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: August 12, 2000
Publisher: Tor Books
Studio: Tor Books
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Editorial Review:
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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Please write more books Joan!
IMHO, Joan is one of the best fiction writers ever. I've read all of her books, including this one. I have not read a mediocre one yet; the characters and landscapes are interesting, believeable and engaging. Her scientifically-based plots are supurbly conceived and flawlessly executed (yeah I know that sounds cheezy).
I keep checking Amazon periodically in hopes she publishes something else. Someday maybe I'll luck out and find she has given up 'real science' in the 'real world' ... Read More
Rating:  - Fascinating concept, with a bit of a nit
I loved the idea, and I loved the libertine Eleutherian community and their nightclubs. Now the microbes experience an entire lifetime in the equivalent of human weeks. Hence my nits. Chrys, God of Mercy, experiences conversation with her various people in her 'real time', yet, so apparantly do the Eleutherians. Shouldn't a conversation be taking place over a span of Eleutherian days? Or weeks? She closes her eyes for 2 minutes to punish people with an eclipse lasting months(?). Yet she sleeps, waking ... Read More
Rating:  - Hardly as original as Blood Music
And the micros are psychologically too much like people. But it does raise a number of interesting points, and it's a fun read. And I wanted to give it 3 stars, but Amazon is insisting on two.
Rating: - Great Book!
I really love the idea of a symbiotic relationship with a civilization of microscopic organisms. The book explored this complex topic without becoming more technical than any average reader can understand. I liked the universe the author had set up so much that I read all the other books part of the Elysium universe, and they were just as great as this one.
The realistic element of still having corruption, violence, and abuse in society made the story seem more life-like rather than having it as a ... Read More
Rating: - Powerful, lyrical story about technology, art, & being human
Brilliant, powerful, beautiful -- at times terrifying, at times humourous -- with finely developed characters from the human protagonist to the generations of microbial creatures developing in her brain. The story is deep without being pretentious, fast-paced and thrilling but with an attention to detail. I picked this up, of all places, in a supermarket, because the cover caught my eye. I have not read any of this author's previous work, but I'm looking forward to reading anything else available. It's ... Read More
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