A Door into Ocean

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A Door into Ocean

Author:	Joan Slonczewski
Publisher:	Ultramarine Publishing Company, Inc, 1986
Series:	Elysium Cycle: Book 1
0. Microbe 1. A Door into Ocean 2. Daughter of Elysium 3. The Children Star 4. Brain Plague
Book Type:	Novel
Genre:	Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags:	Colonization Utopia Theological
Awards:	1987 Campbell Winner 1987 Prometheus Nominated
Lists:	The Classics of Science Fiction Award Winning Books by Women Authors SF Mistressworks Easton Press Masterpieces of Science Fiction Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 WWEnd Top Listed Books The Defining Science Fiction Books of the 1980s 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001 An LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Resource Science Fiction by Women Writers
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Synopsis

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...