They completed a PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1982 and post-doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania studying calcium flux in leukocyte chemotaxis. in biology, magna cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College in 1977. Slonczewski was born in 1956 at Hyde Park, New York and raised in Katonah, New York. They explore ideas of biology, politics, and artificial intelligence at their blog Ultraphyte. Foster and Erik Zinser, they coauthor the textbook, Microbiology: An Evolving Science (W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: A Door into Ocean (1987) and The Highest Frontier (2011).
Their books have twice earned the John W. A Door into Ocean, I conclude, effectively uses science fiction to demonstrate pragmatic ways in which contemporary feminists can move beyond ideological resistance to active resistance.Ī Door Into Ocean’s Nonviolent Resistance as Pragmatic Social VisionJoan Lyn Slonczewski is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. I then turn my attention to Gene Sharp’s landmark 1973 work, The Politics of Nonviolent Action, which Slonczewski has called “a virtual textbook of the methods of nonviolence.” I examine how specific methods from Sharp’s book appear in the novel, and argue that the eventual outcome of Shora’s resistance fits with Sharp’s theory about effective campaigns of nonviolent civil action. I begin my study by examining the threefold influences on the Shoran’s philosophy of resistance: postcolonial resistance, ecofeminism, and Quaker theology. Unlike many dystopian and utopian novels, which provide social commentary and offer up ideals but not practical solutions, A Door into Ocean depicts the citizens of a peaceful alien nation, Shora, using various practical tactics of resistance against invading Valan forces that can be applied to contemporary protest and political action. In this essay, I examine how Joan Slonczewski’s 1986 feminist science fiction novel A Door into Ocean outlines a practical program of nonviolent resistance to oppression.
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