![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fortunately, this schematic political framework is enlivened by the full-blooded characters who negotiate between the two cultures. In the inevitable confrontation, Shora uses Gandhian techniques of passive resistance to thwart Valedon's troops. It gets by without any government, shuns the mechanical and, knowing its limits, lives in harmony with nature. On the other is Valedon's watery moon Shora, an all-female society based on life sciences and the principle of sharing. A Door Into Ocean (Elysium Cycle) by Joan Slonczewski, May 1987, The Womens Press edition, Trade Paperback in English A Door into Ocean (May 1987 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. ![]() On one side is the planet Valedon, a patriarchal, capitalist, mechanistic and militaristic society. Conflict erupts when a militaristic neighboring civilization sends an army to develop their ocean world. (Particularly ingenious are the clickfliesinsects that collectively serve as both a living computer and a communications network.) But the book has problems with its rigid ideological structure. In her ambitious second SF novel (after Still Forms on Foxfield biology professor Slonczewski has created an intriguing ocean world with its own culture and biological adaptions. ![]()
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