Brain Plague - An Elysium Cycle Novel (Paperback)

from CBrachyrhynchos

I read this back when it was first published and felt the need to revisit it again, even to the point of buying two different copies of it.Starving artist Chrysoberyl agrees as part of an experimental protocol to become the host to a community of sentient microbes. The specific strain she gets, E...

from wealhtheowwylfing

Chrysoberl is an artist just barely making her rent when she receives word: the medical experiment she volunteered for is ready for her. To her surprise, instead of a new drug she gets an entire race of microbial people who live inside her brain, patrol her body for ill-health, and worship her as...

from greeniezona

Oh, how I love Joan Slonczewski and the Door Into Ocean universe! So much so that I somehow got two copies of this from paperbackswap. Ooops. Once I got the second copy in the mail, it was clearly time to start reading one of them. I believe this is the fourth book in the Elysium Cycle. It takes ...

from Strider66

Pros: brilliant world-building, fascinating characters, thought-provoking Cons: Chrysoberyl of Dolomoth is a pyroscape artist with the Seven Stars. In order to improve her financial and artistic positions she agrees to become a carrier. Carriers play host to sentient microbial symbionts, visible ...

from Strider66

Pros: brilliant world-building, fascinating characters, thought-provoking Cons: Chrysoberyl of Dolomoth is a pyroscape artist with the Seven Stars. In order to improve her financial and artistic positions she agrees to become a carrier. Carriers play host to sentient microbial symbionts, visible ...