A Door Into Ocean

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TitleA Door Into Ocean
Year for Search1986
AuthorsSlonczewski, Joan [Lyn](b. 1956)
Date Published1986
PublisherArbor House
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

Complex feminist and ecological eutopia on an ocean planet with no men that practices cooperation and nonviolence in conflict with a male dominated, authoritarian society that wants to take the knowledge that the women have by force and control the planet. Her eutopian Daughter of Elysium (1993) is also part of her Elysium Cycle as are her non-utopia “The Children Star.” Illus. Darryl Elliott in Analog 118. 4 – 7/8 (April – July/August 1998): 10-16, 18-59; 10-54; 58-97; 180-218, 220-222; rpt. without the illus. New York: Tor, 1998; and Brain Plague. New York: Tor, 2000.

Additional Publishers

Collector's Edition illus. Michael Mariano and with an "Introduction" by Pamela Sargent (v-ix). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992.
Info Notes

Her eutopian Daughter of Elysium (1993) is also part of her Elysium Cycle as are her non-utopia “The Children Star.” Illus. Darryl Elliott in Analog 118. 4 – 7/8 (April – July/August 1998): 10-16, 18-59; 10-54; 58-97; 180-218, 220-222; rpt. without the illus. New York: Tor, 1998; and Brain Plague. New York: Tor, 2000.
Holding Institutions

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Author Note

The female author (b. 1956) is Professor of Biology at Kenyon College specializing in Microbiology.
Full Text

1986 Slonczewski, Joan [Lyn] (b. 1956). A Door Into Ocean. New York: Arbor House. Collector’s Edition illus. Michael Mariano and with an “Introduction” by Pamela Sargent (v-ix). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. PSt

Complex feminist and ecological eutopia on an ocean planet with no men that practices cooperation and nonviolence in conflict with a male dominated, authoritarian society that wants to take the knowledge that the women have by force and control the planet. Her eutopian Daughter of Elysium (1993) is also part of her Elysium Cycle as are her non-utopia “The Children Star.” Illus. Darryl Elliott in Analog 118. 4 – 7/8 (April – July/August 1998): 10-16, 18-59; 10-54; 58-97; 180-218, 220-222; rpt. without the illus. New York: Tor, 1998; and Brain Plague. New York: Tor, 2000. The female author is Professor of Biology at Kenyon College specializing in Microbiology.