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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Intricate and thought-provoking. Not lyrical, but some nice turns of phrase. I appreciated especially Merwen and Usha, but felt Spinel was underused. ( )Should appeal to readers into world creation. She was partly inspired by the Vietnam War. Human history suggests that those who anticipate future violence are likely to be correct. But Slonczewski, like the Quakers to whom she belongs, believes that it need not be true, that if determined people stick to their principles of non-violence in spite of challenges, pressures, and temptations, they can create a future in which people, and even aliens, live in harmony with each other and with their environments. - Masterpieces of Science Fiction 5 stars+ 0.043 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0312876521, Paperback)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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:10 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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