A Door into Ocean

424 Pages·1986·13.599 MB·English

by  Joan Slonczewski

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A Science Fiction Novel by
JOHN SLONCZEWSKI
“If you want a completely built world, and
science fiction done with the scienee right,
this is it.”
— Gregory Benford, author of Timescape
Joan Slonczewski’s first novel, Still Forms
on Foxfield, made the Locus list of distin¬
guished first novels and was a nominee for
best novel of the year. She continues the
tradition with A Door into Ocean.
Thousands of years in the future in a
distant part of the galaxy, lies the planet
Shora, entirely eovered by a world-span¬
ning ocean. The huge and complex eco¬
system of Shora is inhabited by the Sharers,
an all female race who reproduce by par-
thenogensis, without males. The Sharers
are immensely sophisticated in the life
sciences, but have eschewed all unnatural
technology. Over millennia of isolation,
they have developed a complex philosoph¬
ical and ethical system, idealistic, com¬
munal, and pacifist.
But now, as interstellar civilization rises
again, the Sharers are faced with a tech¬
nological and cultural invasion of man from
space. They must develop a system of
peaceful coexistence. Two of them travel
to a nearby planet in the hope of gaining
a better understanding of the male invaders.^
There they invite a young man. Spinel, to
return with them so they can learn from
each other. This is urgent, for in the space
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A DOOR INTO OCEAN

A DOOR
INTO
OCEAN
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Slonczewski, Joan.
A door into ocean /
Copyright © 1986 by Joan Slonczewski
All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in
whole or in part in any form. Published in the United States
of America by Arbor House Publishing Company and in Canada by
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Ltd.
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Slonczewski, Joan.
A door into ocean.
1. Title.
PS3569.L65D6 1986 813'.54 85-11141
ISBN: 0-87795-763-0
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