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[[Image:Slonczewski-DoorIntoOcean-Avon-1987.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|Cover of Avon 1987 edition]]
[[Image:Slonczewski-DoorIntoOcean-Avon-1987.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|Cover of Avon 1987 edition]]


Novel by [[Joan Slonczewski]] in the [[Elysium Cycle]].
'''A Door Into Ocean''' is a 1986 novel by [[Joan Slonczewski]] in the [[Elysium Cycle]]. It takes place on the planet [[Shora (planet)]]
 
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."
 


Takes place on the planet [[Shora (planet)]]


==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* [http://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/books/adoor_art/adoor_study.htm Study Guide by Joan Slonczewski]
* [http://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/books/adoor_art/adoor_study.htm Study Guide by Joan Slonczewski]



Revision as of 15:21, 17 April 2007

Cover of Avon 1987 edition

A Door Into Ocean is a 1986 novel by Joan Slonczewski in the Elysium Cycle. It takes place on the planet Shora (planet)

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."


Further reading