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A Door Into Ocean

(1986)
(The first book in the Elysium Cycle series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1987 John W. Campbell Memorial Award
1987 Prometheus Award (nominee)

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.


Genre: Science Fiction

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