The prose is excellent, it is good writing, word wise. SHE CLOSED HER EYES SAVORING THE SALT OF HIS TONGUE Joan is a biology teacher in college and she does come up with an interesting world. Shaving themselves seems to be there biggest joy. They run around naked, but they don't have sex. If anybody wants or needs something they will just give it to them. They live in a commune, where money is worthless. They are pacifists and blame men for war and the ruin of most planets. WHO RULES WITHOUT BEING RULED This is a water world without men. Had I had read the reviews and know it moves slower then molasses, I would not have. Had I know it was a feminist book, I might have still bought it. Before you get all emotional on me, that is exactly what it says in most summaries of the book. I did not realize it was a feminist book. Science Fiction Book Club selection.I got this cause it was a water world and because it is a prequel to Brain Plague. Fortunately, this schematic political framework is enlivened by the full-blooded characters who negotiate between the two cultures. In the inevitable confrontation, Shora uses Gandhian techniques of passive resistance to thwart Valedon's troops. It gets by without any government, shuns the mechanical and, knowing its limits, lives in harmony with nature. On the other is Valedon's watery moon Shora, an all-female society based on life sciences and the principle of sharing.
On one side is the planet Valedon, a patriarchal, capitalist, mechanistic and militaristic society. (Particularly ingenious are the clickfliesinsects that collectively serve as both a living computer and a communications network.) But the book has problems with its rigid ideological structure. In her ambitious second SF novel (after Still Forms on Foxfield biology professor Slonczewski has created an intriguing ocean world with its own culture and biological adaptions.
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