A Door Into Ocean

Product Description
[This is the MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]

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Winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best science fiction novel*

[Produced by Stefan Rudnicki]
[Directed by Gabrielle de Cuir]
[Read by Rosalyn Landor]

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

A groundbreaking work both of feminist science fiction and of world-building, hard science fiction,
A Door into Ocean is the novel that solidified Joan Slonczewski's reputation as an important science fiction writer.
Review
''By the time the conflict . . . has moved to center stage, you not only know the antagonists intimately, you care passionately about the outcome . . . The story deals with the efforts of decent people on both sides to see beyond their culture-bound definitions of humanity.'' --
New York Times Book Review

''[A] dreamy, poetic book . . . very much in the spirit of Dune or Le Guin's works. It's tough to build a world, particularly if you try to get the science correct. Author Slonczewski accomplishes that difficult feat and manages a gripping plot into the bargain. Maybe Le Guin has competition.'' --
San Francisco Examiner

An intriguing ocean world...[The] schematic political framework is enlivened by the full-blooded characters who negotiate between the two cultures. Science Fiction Book Club selection. --
Publishers Weekly

''One of the best new science fiction novels of the last several years.'' --VOYA

''Slonczewski creates an all-female, nonviolent culture that reaches beyond feminism to a new definition of human nature. This novel is highly recommended.'' --
Library Journal
About the Author
JOAN SLONCZEWSKI lives in Gambier, Ohio, and teaches biology and science fiction courses at Kenyon College.