October sci-fi book: Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
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In October we're reading Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
A Door into Ocean is a 1986 feminist science fiction novel by Joan Slonczewski. It is the first book in Slonczewski's Elysium Cycle. The novel's themes include ecofeminism and nonviolent revolution, as well as Slonczewski's own knowledge in the field of biology.
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.
A Door into Ocean won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 1987. This made Slonczewski the first woman to win that award.