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Revision as of 19:09, 24 August 2010
A Door Into Ocean is a 1986 novel by Joan Slonczewski in the Elysium Cycle. It takes place on the planet Shora.
In the far future humans have been bio-engineered in several different forms. A standard form young human male goes to live with a bio-engineered aquatic & parthenogenetic all-female form.
"In A Door Into Ocean, Campbell Award winner, the Sharers develop symbiotic bacteria to help them breathe and swim underwater. They engineer flying fish and other exotic organisms on their planet, covered entirely by ocean." (from Slonczewski webpage)
Awards
- Campbell Award
Further reading
- Study Guide by Joan Slonczewski
- "Door Into Ocean" group discussion, Group Reads - Sci-Fi, LibraryThing discussion group (discussion begun 2009/10/03)