A Door Into Ocean: Elysium Cycle Series, Book 1

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The Sharers of Shora are a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future who are pacifists, who are highly advanced in biological sciences, and who reproduce by parthenogenesis — because there are no males. Conflict erupts when a neighboring civilization decides to develop their ocean world and sends in an army.

A groundbreaking work both of feminist science fiction and of world-building hard science fiction, A Door Into Ocean is the novel that made Joan Slonczewski's ...

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Overview

The Sharers of Shora are a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future who are pacifists, who are highly advanced in biological sciences, and who reproduce by parthenogenesis — because there are no males. Conflict erupts when a neighboring civilization decides to develop their ocean world and sends in an army.

A groundbreaking work both of feminist science fiction and of world-building hard science fiction, A Door Into Ocean is the novel that made Joan Slonczewski's reputation as an important science-fiction writer.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
In her ambitious second SF novel (after Still Forms on Foxfield biology professor Slonczewski has created an intriguing ocean world with its own culture and biological adaptions. (Particularly ingenious are the clickfliesinsects that collectively serve as both a living computer and a communications network.) But the book has problems with its rigid ideological structure. On one side is the planet Valedon, a patriarchal, capitalist, mechanistic and militaristic society. On the other is Valedon's watery moon Shora, an all-female society based on life sciences and the principle of sharing. It gets by without any government, shuns the mechanical and, knowing its limits, lives in harmony with nature. In the inevitable confrontation, Shora uses Gandhian techniques of passive resistance to thwart Valedon's troops. Fortunately, this schematic political framework is enlivened by the full-blooded characters who negotiate between the two cultures. Science Fiction Book Club selection. February 7
San Francisco Examiner
This dreamy, poetic book builds an alien planet, ecosystem, culture, etc., very much in the spirit of Dune or Le Guin's works.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781433253225
  • Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
  • Publication date: 7/29/2008
  • Series: Elysium Cycle
  • Format: MP3
  • Edition description: Unabridged
  • Ships to U.S.and APO/FPO addresses only.

Meet the Author

Rosalyn Landor, an actress since age seven in Europe and the United States, has had leading roles for PBS's Masterpiece Theater, including Sherlock Holmes, Love in a Cold Climate, and Rumpole of the Bailey, in various mini-series, and in film, theater, and audio productions. She lives in Los Angeles.

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