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I'm reading *The Dispossessed* for the first time. Yeah, I know I'm late to the party...

It's a set of very weird worlds she's portraying in this book. I find the culture on Anarres revolting in it's insularity, and groupthink. At the same time the misogynism expressed by the people on Urras is just as disgusting.

It really isn't a clear cut ideal, any of them. Classic Le Guin making things more complex than you first imagine. She was good.

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Olen melko ällikällä lyöty ehdokkuudestani -käännöspalkinnolle. Erityisen iloinen olen in, n ja fandomin puolesta, ei ole vieläkään ihan jokapäiväistä että jokin perinteisesti genreen lokeroitu teos ja kirjailija ovat ehdolla yleiselle kirjallisuuspalkinnolle. Agricolahan myönnetään todellakin "merkittävän kaunokirjallisen teoksen erinomaisesta suomennoksesta".

Kuvassa pöllämystynyt ja onnellinen .

https://www.sktl.fi/?x18668=4557862

Suomentaja hymyilee kädessään Kompassiruusu ja toisessa kädessä onnitteluruusu.

«Teknologiari» buruzko solasaldia

Ursula K. Le Guin-ek 2005ean idatzitako hau egunerokoan ez ahazteko, euskarara ekarria. Teknologia dena eta ez dena, nola erabakitzen diguten gogorarazten digu testuak. Horri aurre egiteko, teknologia denon afera dela ulertzeko, teknologia beraren izaera bera zalantzan jartzea proposatzen digu Ursulak testuan.

Changing Planes lanari buruzko aldeko kritika interesgarri batean, argentinar kritiko batek baieztatzen duenez, Le Guin zientzia-fikzio gogorreko idazlea ez denez, “teknologia kontu handiz saihesten duela”. Ohar bat idatzi nuen artikulu horren itzulpenean, eta hona hemen orain oin-ohar horren zabalpena — gaiak haserrea eragin didalako —.

ZF “gogorra” teknologiari buruzkoa da, eta ZF “bigunak” ez du teknologiarik, ezta? Eta nire liburuek ez dute teknologiarik, psikologia eta emozioak bezalako gai xaloak bakarrik interesatzen zaizkidalako.

Hori ez da zuzena. Nola liteke edozein benetako zientzia fikzioak eduki teknologikorik ez izatea? Bere interes nagusia ingeniaritzan edo makinen funtzionamenduan ez badago ere — nire lan gehienek bezala, …

'Very Far Away From Anywhere Else' by Ursula K. Le Guin is a brief, beautiful account of two teen outsiders in 1970s middle-America. As so often with Le Guin, it made me feel very represented.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/7130e9bb-c011-4de5-8bdb-0e1b458f127b

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[Masters Thesis] Aesthetics in , , &

by Andrew Gabriel Rose, 2024

"This thesis identifies and explores aesthetic strategies in art, literature, and social activism that inspire the desirability of degrowth economic paradigms in post-industrial imaginaries. These imaginaries, composed of cultural images, narratives, and representations, shape collective perceptions, expectations, and understandings. Drawing examples from The Dispossessed by , stylistic elements from the emerging solarpunk genre, and practical demonstrations of direct action achieved by the Occupy Wall Street movement, the study explores how artists, scholars, and activists can present beautiful or compelling alternatives to dominant narratives of growth and consumption using targeted aesthetic strategies. A comparative analysis of approaches found in these examples highlights the competitiveness of narratives and practices that prioritize , , and well-being over the prevailing logic of endless economic expansion. By …

Quite different from the planetary I associate most with , the story of a man whose dreams change reality, and the sleep doctor who exploits him. Written with her trademark elegance and wisdom, with shifts between quiet interiority and 'big budget' spectacle that only literary sci fi can offer. A classic that I'm amazed I got so far into my life to get around to reading! @bookstodon

The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula Le Guin

"In 1982, an interviewer for a science fiction magazine asked Le Guin what she would do to save the world. She answered impatiently: “The syntax implies a further clause beginning with if…What would I do to save the world if I were omnipotent? But I am not, so the question is trivial. What would I do to save the world if I were a middle-aged middle-class woman? Write novels and worry.”"

https://lithub.com/the-way-of-water-on-the-quiet-power-of-ursula-k-le-guins-activism/

Právě dočteno.

Přednášky, úvahy a eseje jedné z nejdůležitějších autorek fantastické literatury o tom, že fantasy a sci-fi bylo a stále ještě je, v určitých literárně snobských kruzích, hanobeno a bráno jako něco podřadného, něco, co je určeno jen dětem.
Útlá, ale podnětná knížečka se spoustou zajímavých informací, úvah a tipů na dobré knihy a autory a pro skalní fandy Ursuly K. Le Guin povinnost. Její láska k žánrové literatuře je tu přímo hmatatelná.

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