Title: A Door Into Ocean Title Record # 2083
Author: Joan Slonczewski
Date: 1986-02-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Elysium Cycle
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Language: English
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Translations
Year Language Title 1988ⓘTranslated by Giampaolo Cossato and Sandro Sandrelli Italian La difesa di Shora 2007ⓘTranslated by Kollárik Péter Hungarian Ajtó az óceánba

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
1	1987 Campbell Memorial	Best Science Fiction Novel
Nomination	1987 Prometheus	Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian SF Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
A Door Into Ocean	1986-02-00	Joan Slonczewski	Arbor House	0-87795-763-0	$17.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	403	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Ron Walotsky
A Door Into Ocean	1986-02-00	Joan Slonczewski	Arbor House / SFBC	04564	$5.98?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	372	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Ron Walotsky
A Door Into Ocean	1987-02-00	Joan Slonczewski	Avon	0-380-70150-2	$3.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	406	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Line
A Door Into Ocean	1987-05-00	Joan Slonczewski	The Women's Press (The Women's Press Science Fiction)	0-7043-4069-0	£4.95?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	403	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Barbara Loftus
La difesa di Shora	1988-04-00	Joan Slonczewski	Editrice Nord (Cosmo Collana di Fantascienza #188)		Lit 12,000?Lit: Italian lira. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999	iv+ 457	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Paul Lehr
A Door Into Ocean	1992-05-00	Joan Slonczewski	The Easton Press (The Masterpieces of Science Fiction)			ix+ 403	hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
A Door Into Ocean	2000-10-00	Joan Slonczewski	Orb	0-312-87652-1	$15.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	403	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Alan Pollack
Ajtó az óceánba	2007-00-00	Joan Slonczewski	Metropolis Media ( Galaktika Fantasztikus Könyvek?Galaktika Fantasztikus Konyvek )	978-963-87357-5-1	Ft 2,990?Ft: Hungarian forint. ISO code: HUF	408	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Diane Özdamar
A Door Into Ocean	2016-11-14	Joan Slonczewski	Phoenix Pick	978-1-61242-321-0	£7.93?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
A Door Into Ocean	2016-11-16	Joan Slonczewski	Phoenix Pick	978-1-61242-320-3	£14.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	430	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
A Door Into Ocean	date unknown	Joan Slonczewski	Avon	0-380-70150-2	$4.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	406	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Line

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Reviews

• Review by Agatha Taormina (1985) in Fantasy Review, November 1985
• Review by Dean R. Lambe (1986) in Science Fiction Review, Spring 1986
• Review by Don D'Ammassa (1986) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #82 July 1986
• Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (1986) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1986
• Review by Jenny Blackford (1986) in Australian Science Fiction Review, #4, September 1986
• Review by Roland J. Green (1986) in Far Frontiers, Volume VII/ Winter 1986
• Review by Andy Sawyer (1987) in Paperback Inferno, #67
• Review by Lee Montgomerie (1987) in Interzone, #22 Winter 1987
• Review by Diane Fox (1989) in SF Commentary, #67
• Review by Jane Donawerth (1997) in Frankenstein's Daughters: Women Writing Science Fiction
• Review by Jenny Blackford (2001) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, May 2001
• Review by Gwyneth Jones (2009) in Imagination/Space: Essays and Talks on Fiction, Feminism, Technology, and Politics
• Review by Damien Broderick and Paul Di Filippo (2012) in Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 , reprinted in:
•     Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 (2012)