Just finished reading The Dispossessed. It's my favorite of this volume. Probably, it's my favorite from Le Guin. @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
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The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary Hainish …
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what Ursula K. Le Guin says:
New Atlantis by Ursula Le Guin https://crys.site/blog/2025/new-altantis-by-ursula-le-guin/
For our scifi book club we've chosen Ursula K Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness for this month.
The copy (publishing date 2018) I ordered from Waterstones has just been delivered. While waiting for my tea to brew I idly flicked over to the back cover.
Ick, a quote from Gaiman. That most certainly didn't age well.
Art is very important for socialism
The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary Hainish …
No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggresion. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year. We've followed our road too far...
— Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories Vol. 1 (LOA #296): Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / ... of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition) by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Novels & Stories, #1)
The meaning of patriotism @bookstodon@a.gup.pe @sifi@a.gup.pe #LeGuin #SiFi
Just finished The Dispossessed by le Guin- what an incredible book. There are so many sentences that are so beautiful they moved me to tears. The story is so intelligent yet so human. It’s hard to believe such a philosophical/sociological novel could be this human but The Dispossessed is wholly both. It spoke to me of how our western society is deficient, and how it is beautiful, in a way that nothing has for a long time. It is a terrifying look at the human race; but above all, the book is loving, and I’m very glad we had le Guin to give it to us.
New peer-reviewed journal alert!
UKL: The Journal of Ursula K. Le Guin Studies is a peer-reviewed, annual publication focused on the work of Ursula K. Le Guin and scholarship on that work. The primary goal of the journal is to provide a space where a diverse range of Le Guin-related scholarship can be encouraged and sustained.
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I want to live in a small town with a wildlife fence to keep us from wandering about for no good reason and no single family homes, where we do permaculture and everyone shares.
Avatar has a pretty version, Atwood's MaddAdam a darker. LeGuin wrote the most realistic in Always Coming Home...
A Humble Bundle of 30 books by Ursula K. Le Guin!
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/wizard-earthsea-and-more-ursula-k-le-guin-books
Ursula K. Le Guin on individual revolution: ‘The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive. We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society formed upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.’ ― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia #leguin #revolution #anarchism
Here is a chapter (or a single story?) from "Kalpa Imperial", one of the most beautiful #fantasy #books I've ever read, by Argentinian writer Angélica #Gorodischer.
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It was #translated from Spanish by none other than Ursula K. #LeGuin.
https://smallbeerpress.com/free-stuff-to-read/2017/10/20/the-end-of-a-dynasty-or-the-natural-history-of-ferrets/
#KalpaImperial #RecommendedReading #WritersOfMastodon #book #bookstodon #bookworm #SpeculativeFiction #literature #LiteratureInTranslation #LatinAmericanLiterature
Felt the urge to read The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas for some reason, so I got in the car and drove to the nearest bookstore, which is sadly 13 miles away. They didn't have that in stock, so I ended up ordering it (and with Gideon the Ninth, which I have heard is good).
Ended up getting The Left Hand of Darkness, which I'm about a third of the way through, and Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions. Hmm, I need to revisit Eidolons from Angry Candy. Seems topical.
I finally read The Left Hand of Darkness, and wrote an essay/review/mishmash of Thots about it:
https://halojedha.dreamwidth.org/57771.html