num_pages: 403
description: Joan Slonczewski's 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.
language: English
title: A Door Into Ocean
titlecomplete: A Door Into Ocean (Elysium Cycle, #1)
genres: LGBT, Feminism, Fantasy, Lesbian, Aliens, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 2272
series: Elysium Cycle
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel
publisher: Orb Books