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Name: A Door Into Ocean

Author: Joan Slonczewski
Year: 1986
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Science fiction, Award winners, Fantasy, Lesbian

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ISBNs:
9780312876524
0312876521

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.

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