jimb@ISM780B.UUCP (12/17/85)
["Line Eater beaming up, Capt-- "
For those interested in mono sex societies, feminism, or bad jacket
blurbs, the following is excerpted from the SF Book Club's 2/86 (!) Bulletin
announcing selections. The book in question is Joan Slonczewski's A DOOR
INTO OCEAN, the main selection for the month.
"Bernice is caught between two worlds.
Born into one of the leading aristocratic trading families of Valedon, she'd
grown up on its ocean-covered sister world and moon, Shora. There, the
pacifist all-female society of the Sharers flourishes on living rafts shaped
by the same deft bio-engineering that permits reproduction. And there,
amid Shora's communality and gentle anarchy, its honesty and ecological
sensitivity, Benice has found all the things she missed in the profit and
power-centered hierarchy of Valedon.
....
The invasion comes...but on a world where the very concept of war is
completely non-existent, among a people with no acknowledged leader, whom
can an army fight and conqueor? With whom can a general treat for peace?"
Gee, next we'll have The Care Bears Go Galactic. Seriously, though, if the
book lives up (?) to its description, it's the kind of thing that can give
feminism a bad name.
-- from the bewildered musings of Jim Brunet
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