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SEMIOSIS_Small The novel Semiosis is now available as a trade paperback. You can buy it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, Books-A-Million, and at your local independent bookstore — find the closest one to you at IndieBound.

Also available in digital audio, e-book, and hardcover.

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Posted on March 12, 2019 by Sue Burke

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Why “Semiosis?”

Here’s a definition: “Semiosis (from the Greek verb sēmeiô, ‘to mark’) is any form of activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, including the production of meaning; an action or process involving the establishment of a relationship between a sign and its object and meaning.” Semiosis encompasses more than semantics, which focuses on language. It can include both human and nonhuman systems that use chemical, auditory, visual, or tactile signs to pass on information.

That is, Semiosis is about communication.

Why the name “Stevland”?

Stevland took his name from Stevland Jamil Barr, the first to die on the voyage to the planet Pax. Colonists agreed that the planet’s most important life form would be named after him.

Stevland Jamil Barr got his first name from the musician Stevie Wonder, whose full name is Stevland Hardaway Morris.

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About the Book

If I had won…
Digging up a novel
Where the idea for “Semiosis” came from
A splashy pink birthday gift
My Goodreads review of “The Forgetting Flower”
“Semiosis” is a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award
Flowers in the news
My Goodreads review – good stories with one big problem Anderson never saw
Why do roses have thorns?
My new favorite plant – from Mom
More news: “Semiosis” is a finalist for the Locus Best First Novel Award!
“Semiosis” is on the Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist!
Houseplants have simple emotions
The Nerd Cantina interview
John Muir ecstatically describes spring in the mountains
Two short stories set on Pax
Very deep thoughts about “Semiosis”
Now available in Japan!
Writers Aloud: I’ll be reading on Sunday
A first look at “Interference”
Book club study guide
I’ll be at C2E2
Now in paperback
Kitschies nomination for “Semiosis”
The invention of the fippokat
Earth names for Pax plants and animals
Where to find me at Capricon 39
Five questions at Breaking the Glass Slipper
Plants in the news: food, flowers, and family ties
Review: The Revolutionary Genius of Plants
I’ll be at an open mic Saturday night
Texas Library Association: “Semiosis” is “a pleasure to read”
Storing wealth in the soil
Off to a bad start
“Semiosis” is on some year’s best SF lists
How do you read?
“Semiosis” is on sale: $2.99 for the ebook
Mediate like the stars
Authors and astronomers at the Adler Planetarium Book Club
Plants in print: Books about botany
The last thing a plant sees
Where to find me at Windycon
The words to Higgins’ song, “Grief Evergreen”
“Live like a tree…”
Exactly where is the Planet Pax?
Fall is here, and trees will demonstrate their power
Reading recommendation: “Nine Last Days on Planet Earth” by Daryl Gregory
Do your neglected houseplants want revenge?
Plants are sneakier than we thought
Where to find me in early September
A review of “Children of Time,” by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Why writers hate (some) editors
Where to find me at Worldcon
“Semiosis” is now available in Great Britain and Australia
The weight of human life on Earth
Thinking non-human: how Stevland was born
The danger of a bird on Earth
What they’re saying about plants on the internet
Why the Glassmakers left
A family photo: my houseplants
Imagine a wall…
How to get published, or, are you smiling when you write?
A few links about plant science, human sex, and what we can learn from trees
My post at Asimov’s blog
I’ll be at WisCon this weekend
“Semiosis” will have a sequel!
I’ll be in St. Louis on Thursday for a #FearlessWomen event
“Life From the Sky” in the May/June issue of Asimov’s magazine
A deleted bit of a scene
A corpse flower is about to bloom in Chicago

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