A Door Into Ocean
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781433253225 (1433253224)
Publish date: October 1st 2000
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
War,
Feminism,
Speculative Fiction,
Aliens,
Glbt,
Queer,
Gender,
Lesbian
Series: Elysium Cycle
I feel like I've been reading this book over and over lately. Just a few weeks ago, for instance, when it was called Dreamfall. Or earlier this year, under the title Woman on the Edge of Time. A couple of years ago, when it was The Word for World is Forest. All feature these futuristic or alien, usu...
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Occupy Shora.Yes, this counts as a feminist SF work, but as well it's a parable about culture, non-violent resistance, and our conflicting drives either to create or destroy. The world-building is engaging, especially the biology of the planet Shora.
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