A Door into Ocean - Hardcover

Slonczewski, Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0877957630 ISBN 13: 9780877957638

Publisher: Arbor House Pub Co, 1986

Synopsis

The Sharers, a race of all women, living on the planet Shora, who reproduce by parthogenesis without males, are suddenly faced with the technological and cultural invasion of men from space

About this title

From Publishers 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 adaptations. Particularly ingenious are the clickflies, insects 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."

About this edition

• Publisher: Arbor House Pub Co
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0877957630
• ISBN 13: 9780877957638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 403