What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
The birthday of the and other stories is, in my opinion, among her best creations. Considered a genre writer, her talent transcends genre expectations and preconceptions. Another of her gifts is to take an intellectual structure and wrap a marvellous ... Read More
Stories range from a first-contact tale with a deeply anthropological tone to a comedy of manners among some of the most complicated relationships in the universe. The face is simply human, and it emphasizes the humanity of the characters. Other stori... Read More
The hese colonists know nothing of earth save what they have experienced via films and virtual reality programs. They have their own rituals and customs with which they structure their lives until it becomes necessary to debark on the surface of a n... Read More
Birthday of the world is required reading for leguin fans. The novella paradises lost is the gem of this collection. My favorite story is paradise lost, a story about the culture and mythology that are created in a space vessel.
Le guin is a fantastic writer who deftly weaves a beautiful story of characters, plot, and setting with wholesome, open-minded moral messages. The stories are not rote or predictable in any way.
Cons
Le guin is more like an anthropologist than a'strictly sci-fi' writer. The finger she justa drops off. I mean alien teenager loses virginity sounds impossible to make dull, but you could use the story to sedate rhinos.
Highlights
Quality
I am very pleased with this book
In 1969 leguin shattered the standards of science fiction with the left hand of darkness an accessible amazing story set in a u... Read More
This book exhibits every quality you would expect from le guin but that is not to say the stories are rote or predictable in any way
Guins stories are as thorough as the ethnographies that i have to read for my anthro classes class gender inequality significat... Read More
Price
Leguin is one of our best for good reason
Shipping
I love love love stories about colony ships
Generations are born and die upon the ship as it crosses the vastness of space towards its destination
There is only the perfect present the ship the journey
Packaging/appearance
Le guin typical of her selfdeprecating humor talks of her laziness in reusing this setting in her forward
Not in a specieschauvanistic sense but looking deeper into the very question of what makes us human
Competitiveness
Males are venerated and cosseted and do little more than compete in games and impregnate females
Thoughtful a generation ship in route to a new world
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I strongly recommed this book for a book club and its a book that should be discussed among friends
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Recently i found out of this novel collection from one of my favourite sf writers and it didnt dissapointed me
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As usual ursula manages to entertain touch deeply stimulate the imagination and instigate deep debate about extremely important issues with every single text
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This collectionseven short stories 6 or 7 are ekumen stories and a novella set in the future of our own worldcontains some of the most wonderful imaginative works ive ever encountered several i would rank above her famous earlier works the left hand of darkness and dispossessed
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In these stories sex and gender are at the fore
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Guins stories are as thorough as the ethnographies that i have to read for my anthro classes class gender inequality signification and more are covered in a writing that envelopes and enchants the reader
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Leguin is one of our best for good reason
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Its a change of pace for the author involving not the worlds of the ekumen but rather a generation spacecraft on a 201year voyage from earth to a new earth orbiting some unnamed neighboring star
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