A Door Into Ocean - Joan Slonczewski - 1986 Hardback BCE - Ron Walotsky Cover

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Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Water damage.

Cover artist: Ron Walotsky

Blurb: "Thousands of years in the future in a distant part of the galaxy, lies the planet Shora, entirely covered by a world-spanning ocean. The huge and complex ecosystem of Shora is inhabited by the Sharers, an all-female race who reproduce by parthenogensis, without males. The Sharers are immensely sophisticated in the life sciences, but have eschewed all unnatural technology. Over millennia of isolation, they have developed a complex philosophical and ethical system, idealistic, communal, and pacifist...

So begins a war, protracted and graphic, in which one side cannot fight because the concept is inconceivable in their philosophy..."

Awards
1987 Campbell Winner
1987 Prometheus Nominated