A Door into Ocean |
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Author:
| Slonczewski, Joan |
Series title: | Elysium Cycle Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-312-87652-4 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2000 |
Publisher: | Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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Imprint: | Orb Books |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $20.99 |
Book Description:
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Joan Slonczewski's 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 parthenogenesis--there are no males--and tells of the conflicts that erupt when a...
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Joan Slonczewski's 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 parthenogenesis--there are no males--and tells of the conflicts that erupt when a neighboring civilization decides to develop their ocean world, and send in an army.