A Door into Ocean (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Joan Slonczewski
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—alien civilization
- Time of Work: The distant future
- Setting: The planets Valedon and Shora
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Nonviolence, Boycotts
- Locales: Fictional planets
The Plot
For forty years, traders from the planet Valedon have colonized the ocean planet Shora. The story concerns the increasing threat to the inhabitants of Shora and to the balance of life on their ocean home as the effects of colonization escalate and as they face the military invasion of their planet by the occupying forces of Valedon. The population of Shora—all females, who call themselves Sharers—resists the traders and soldiers by peaceful, nonviolent means. They also resist by trying to understand the Valans and by attempting to heal them both physically and...
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