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Graham Culbertson interviews Joan Slonczewski about her novel A Door Into Ocean and its depiction of an anarchist society.

Joan Slonczewski joins me to discuss their novel A Door Into Ocean , a science fiction novel about an all-female society of "sharers" on an ocean planet, Shora. Joan's sharers are one of the best speculative depictions of what an anarchist society would look like, so Joan and I discuss the inspirations for the world, including Gene Sharp, Ursula Le Guin, and Gandhi, and what we can draw on from those figures in our current struggles. You can find Joan at https://biology.kenyon.edu/slonc/slonc.htm Buy the book: https://flyleafbooks.com/book/9780312876524

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