Series
Elysium Cycle
Joan Slonczewski · 4 novels · 1 short story · 1986–2000
On the ocean-covered moon Shora, the Sharers -- an all-female society skilled in genetic engineering and committed to strict nonviolence -- face invasion by the militaristic Patriarchy, which cannot fathom a people who refuse to fight back with force. Joan Slonczewski's A Door into Ocean opens the Elysium Cycle by testing whether a philosophy built on the idea that 'to hurt is to be hurt' can actually survive violent occupation. Later books in the cycle, including Daughter of Elysium, The Children Star, and Brain Plague, carry the same interest in biology, pacifism, and alien societies into new settings.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Elysium Cycle at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s1
- 1990s3
- 2000s1
Shape
4 novels · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:science fictionspace colonizationother star systemsfar futurereflectiveadult
Mood
Grim and calm: 60% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Brain Plaguedarkest · most intense
- A Door Into Oceanbrightest
- The Children Starcalmest