Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Ursula LeGuin

Ursula Le Guin has died.


Le Guin's books melded dragons and wizards with spaceships to tackle earth-bound problems of race, gender and class.

and did this years before it became a fad.

This one's theme is about a ambivalent/changing gender society.

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and this one is a parable that is still so non PC that no one wants to discuss it: it can be interpreted many ways:

 did we build our wealth on the suffering/exploitation of poor people in the US and in the Third world?

alternative interpretation: do we abort our children who get in the way of our careers?



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Mythgard institute has a series of discussions of her novel the Dispossed, about an anarchist society (in contrast with an earth that resembles today's world). More nuanced than you think.



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