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Slonczewski, Joan: A Door Into Ocean. 26815
Arbor House: NY. 1986.
First edition (& 1st printing).
Hardcover.
The author's second sf novel, winner of the1987 John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
''US writer and professor of biology, specializing in genetics, who began publishing sf with her first novel, Still Forms on Foxfield (1980), a tale in which most of her subsequent concerns take initial shape. A human community of Quakers, having fled an apparently doomed Earth and establishing on the planet Foxfield a sane and ecology-obedient relationship with the native species, is contacted centuries later by a technologically resurgent humanity and must now deal with the challenge to its ways. Significantly, the book deals not with rediscovery -- an old and typically triumphalist sf theme -- but with being discovered, a point of view reiterated in her second and best known novel, A DOOR INTO OCEAN (1986), which won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. The planet (in fact a moon) is in this case water-covered and inhabited by women, who thwart a military invasion; the book teaches some sharp feminist lessons en passant. The sequel, Daughter of Elysium (1993), broadens the terms of discourse -- several contrasting societies are portrayed -- at some cost to narrative vigour, though sharp subtle observations constantly, as before, prickle and amuse'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF).
Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Price:
15.00 GBP
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