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The Earth colony of Landin has been stranded on Werel for ten years—& ten of Werel’s years are over 600 …
How Long 'til Black Future Month? is a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by American novelist N. …
The Earth colony of Landin has been stranded on Werel for ten years—& ten of Werel’s years are over 600 …
An unusual post apocalyptic novel with some AI thrown in. It has an ending that I did not expect which makes you question things that happen earlier. Certainly makes you consider what you would do in the same situation.
Wow, that was the quickest book I've read this year. Compelling and an easy read. Nice message well delivered.
Content warning Spoliers
@JennyJaybles I agree that this seemed to me to stand out as weirdly normalised behaviour. I feel like it could be removed from the book and it would have no impact. I guess it's there to serve as the setup for Shevek being horrified by Urras, but other events after this make the scene irrelevant.
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by American writer …
Enjoyable narrative that serves an interesting treatise on anarchism and human nature. I started reading it as I thought it would be more about the invention of the ansible, but that was really a side aspect that served as a small part of the motivation of the protagonist. I certainly wanted to stay in the world at the end of the book and gld that there's more books in the series to revisit.
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by American writer …
My world, my Earth, is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and gobbled and fought until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first. There are no forests left on my Earth. The air is grey, the sky is grey, it is always hot. It is habitable, it is still habitable — but not as this world is. This is a living world, a harmony. Mine is a discord, You Odonians chose a desert; we Terrans made a desert... We survive there, as you do. People are tough! There are early: a half billion of us now. Once there were nine billion. You can see the old cities still everywhere. The bones and bricks go to dust, but the little pieces of plastic never do — they never adapt either. We failed as a species, as a social species.
— The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (Page 287)
Terran Ambassador to Urras speaking to Shevek from the anarchist (Odonian) utopia of Annares when they meet on Urras. Written 50 years ago.
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, set …
This is Bean's installment of Orson Scott Card's Ender's saga. It is a great character building book for those who …
This is Bean's installment of Orson Scott Card's Ender's saga. It is a great character …
I've read Ender's Game and always considered reading more of the saga. My mother gave me this, and I'm very intrigued by the idea of seeing the events of Ender's Game from another perspective and written by a more developed author in a different time period.
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
A fine book that got more compelling as it went on. Its full of nice complex ideas that don't seem to get explored.
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
I knw about Monkey only from the TV show, that I only ever caught glimpses of. I picked up this book as I thought it woudl give an interesting insight into a story that I expected to be ancient and difficult to read as a modern reader. I found this translation to be surprisingly fun and easy to read. The characters are enjoyable and the world feel expansive, but also restricted. The introduction that explains it as partially a satire on Chinese bureaucracy helps you spot and enjoy the humour. After feeling like I was pushing myself through the last few books I read this was a breath of fresh air.
