author: joan slonczewski
ISBN: 0-380-75328-6
avon 1988
Still Forms on Foxfield is a 1980 science fiction novel by Joan Slonczewski. It was their first novel.
Fleeing the final war that would destroy Earth's civilization, a small group of Friends--Quakers--found refuge on the uncharted planet they named Foxfield. Somehow they managed to survive, with the aid of the bizarrely gifted native life-form, the Commensals--and, even more extraordinarily, they kept up the practice of their gentle but demanding beliefs.
Then, after nearly a century of silence, Earth contacted them--human civilization had miraculously survived the war and had spread out to the stars, flourishing to an undreamed-of richness.
And the Friends of Foxfield were a part of it--whether they agreed or not.