β Scribed by Joan Slonczewski
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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Paperback, 403 pages
Published: 1986
Edition: Orb eBook (2011)
John W. Campbell Award for Best Novel
"A Door into Ocean" is the novel upon which the author's reputation as an important SF writer principally rests. A ground-breaking work both of feminist SF and of world-building hard SF, it concerns the Sharers of Shora, a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future who are pacifists, highly advanced in biological sciences, and who reproduce by parthenogenesisβthere are no malesβand tells of the conflicts that erupt when a neighboring civilization decides to develop their ocean world, and send in an army.
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A Door into Ocean is the novel upon which the author's reputation as an important SF writer principally rests. A ground-breaking work both of feminist SF and of world-building hard SF, it concerns the Sharers of Shora, a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future who are pacifists, highly a
A Door into Ocean is a 1986 feminist science fiction novel by Joan Slonczewski. The novel's themes include ecofeminism and nonviolent revolution, as well as Slonczewski's own knowledge in the field of biology.