| A Door Into Ocean Contributor(s): Slonczewski, Joan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312876521 ISBN-13: 9780312876524 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL OUR PRICE: $18.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2000 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Genetic Engineering - Fiction | Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Elysium Cycle |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 5.48" W x 8.57" (1.15 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Slonczewski, Joan: - Joan Slonczewski is the author of The Highest Frontier, The Children Star, and A Door Into Ocean. She lives in Gambier, Ohio and teaches biology at Kenyon College. |