I'm trying to remember the name of a SF book. Fairly recent. It's about two planets that are very close together and on one planet there are these avarice driven capitalist monkey people. They have "dead technology" machines and guns. On the other planet are mer-lesbians who use biological living technology and all of their tech must account for the cost to the ecosystem to work.

FOUND IT: A Door into Ocean 1986 novel by Joan Slonczewski

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I'm trying to remember the name of a SF book. Fairly recent. It's about two planets that are very close together and on one planet there are these avarice driven capitalist monkey people. They have "dead technology" machines and guns. On the other planet are mer-lesbians who use biological living technology and all of their tech must account for the cost to the ecosystem to work.

FOUND IT: A Door into Ocean 1986 novel by Joan Slonczewski

Thank you! Read the replies for other good books.

I'm trying to remember the name of a SF book. Fairly recent. It's about two planets that are very close together and on one planet there are these avarice driven capitalist monkey people. They have "dead technology" machines and guns. On the other planet are mer-lesbians who use biological living technology and all of their tech must account for the cost to the ecosystem to work.

FOUND IT: A Door into Ocean 1986 novel by Joan Slonczewski

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@futurebird It is a book by Ursula LeGuin, published here under the title The Outcast.

I make it sound kind of one-sided but it's a very balanced story and the monkey people are likable and their motives understandable making the conflicts more interesting.

@plsik

So it's older than I thought?

@futurebird sort of sounds like "a door into ocean" by Joan Slonczewski

@futurebird LeGuin books are still being published, they're still good years later.

@futurebird bookmarking this so I can come back later to see if you found the title...