Got 'em!! Just got back from Bullmoose!!
The Dispossessed (1974)
The Word For World Is Forest (1972)
Worlds Of Exile And Illusion (Being a collection of...)
Rocannon's World (1966)
Planet of Exile (1966)
City of Illusions (1967)
The release years jump around, but that's the right chronological order; with "Left Hand Of Darkness" coming after "City Of Illusions".
Her world is very Trek-ish, but her stuff came before, during, and after Star Trek Original Series.
Her League of All Worlds is much like the Federation from Trek, but in "City.." it actually gets conquered, and rebuilds itself as the Ekumen by LHOD.
Huge generation jumps in between. We don't get a regular cast like Trek.
More like "Dune" in its time scale.
"Forest" is said to have been ripped off by "Avatar" so I can't wait to see how those compare.
There's a faster-than-light communicator called the ansible that Orson Scott Card (the "Ender's Game" guy) flat out ripped off for his universe.
Can you imagine that seething teeth grinding homophobe reading LHOD, grimacing at the biology and culture of the Gethenians, but then being like "I like the ansible though! Yoink!".
Ugh, he's the J.D. Vance of sci-fi.
I can only hope that each new generation of teenage nerds finds Le Guin before they find Card.
And I hope my blogs can help with that.
Anyway!! Gotta get to reading them!!
Stay tuned for the reviews!!
1 comment:
Well at least you still have Bullmoose up there in Maine, I see.
We here in the Midwest used to have Hastings as our entertainment superstore chain but the crash of physical media caused all the ones around here to close, nearest I can go is Vintage Stock in Topeka.
During the short lived "Ender's Game" movie controversy I read up on some people who sort of have a quasi defense of Orson Scott Card, and it wasn't a very pretty picture--people claim that he's written entire books full of essays that contradict each other, or something like that? Mmmph. I'm not very interested in reading that, because I couldn't much get into "Ender." It's only like 250 pages but took me a ridiculously long time to read--it's awkwardly dense. Also the main character never once seemed to actually be six years old, I'm not surprised the movie made him look about 11.
Also pictures of Card make him look like a pedo. That bowl hair cut and dumb grin.
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