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A Door Into Ocean

by Joan Slonczewski · 1986

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A Door into Oceanis 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.

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aliens and first contactaliens and first contactMore like thisLess of thisscience fictionscience fictionMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thisLGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of thislesbianlesbianMore like thisLess of this
Themes
feminismfeminismMore like thisLess of thisLGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of thisgendergenderMore like thisLess of this
Subject
sciencescienceMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 403 pages

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