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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]] | ||
'''A Door Into Ocean''' is a 1986 novel by [[Joan Slonczewski]] in the [[Elysium Cycle]]. It takes place on the planet [[Shora (planet)]] | '''A Door Into Ocean''' is a 1986 novel by [[Joan Slonczewski]] in the [[Elysium Cycle]]. It takes place on the planet [[Shora (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 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) | "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== | ==Awards== | ||
Revision as of 13:49, 7 April 2008
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