A Door Into Ocean (Elysium Cycle 1)

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Joan Slonczewskis A Door into Ocean is the novel upon which the authors 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.