A Door Into Ocean Lib/E (Audiobook)

from xiaomarlo

What a world Slonczewski has built! Intricate and profound, with cool ideas about biotechnology and how a completely non-violent culture would work. The only problems I found were with 1) the main antagonist - too flat and cartoonish, and 2) the length - this is a very long book.

from CBrachyrhynchos

It's just my luck that I seem to be reading Slonczewski's Elysium cycle backwards. A Door into Ocean is the first, and most explicitly political of the four novels, focusing on non-violent action and culture. Like most novels using this theme, *A Door into Ocean* focuses on the contrast between t...

from alwright1

I loved the world-building in this one. I can be impatient, especially with audio book readers when things build slowly, but the nature of the humans of Shora helped me take time with the plot, even when the action was so decentralized. It took me a long time to listen to this, but I enjoyed the ...

from montsamu

In a word: amazing. Landor's narration is beautiful and lyrical, with well-detailed characterizations across the cultures and classes presented in Slonczewski's award-winning novel of feminism, pacifism, and anarchism in a far-future of multiple visions of post-humanity. It immediately vaults int...

from comixminx

Good old The Women's Press sf list. Nary a title on its small but perfectly formed list is a misfire. Re-read this book for the first time in quite a while: could hardly put it down. Love the world-building and the social construction, as good as classic le Guin.