@brentsleeper@bookwyrm.social David Plotz and Elizabeth Ferry discussed the book and Plotz’ conversations with #UrsulaLeGuin on the most recent episode of their #podcast, “Recall this Book.” https://recallthisbook.org/2023/09/07/112-earthsea-and-other-realms-ursula-le-guin-as-social-inactivist-ef-jp-ukl/

📚 #QueerTech Reading Group
👽 Join us in #Bristol on September 19th to read two short but radical texts and discuss thoughts on #hackers, #queer #technology and utopian possibilities
💾 all are welcome!
https://hdfst.uk/e94864

#lowtech #meetup #ursulaleguin #mckenziewark #digital

@ASleepyWanderer I quite liked Always Coming Home - unconventional structure, not what you would call a story narrative, but really illuminates a world from the inside out. For the younger readers, the Catwings books! #UrsulaLeGuin

A truly excellent bit of writing on "Those Who Walk Away from Omelas". I'm absolutely floored there are people out there who think it's a problem to be solved, rather than a call to examine one's complicity in harm #ursulaleguin #ursulakleguin

https://bloodknife.com/omelas-je-taime/

@priscillaharing really good short #SolarPunk clip - thanks for sharing! So much in here, #UrsulaLeGuin’s #TheDispossed, Giorgio Kallis, etc etc. And yes, William Morris ❤️. Will use it for teaching

One thing i am always struck by as an anthropologist: so much of what we need now already exists outside capitalist modernity- it doesn’t all have to be newly invented. Am wrtiing a paper about this just now in fact! #RegenerativeAnthropology

#ScienceFiction #Request @bookstodon #sff #UrsulaLeGuin

Hello, various mastodoners. Can anyone point me in the direction of that essay that Ursula Leguin wrote about 'Left Hand of Darkness'? The one where she returns to the essay 10 years later and sort of comments on her commentary? In particular I'm trying to hunt down a bit I remember clearly, where she says that she should have been bolder about gender, and used 'she' as the default pronoun for the gender-fluid Gethans rather than 'he'.

"One of the most dangerous [fallacies] is the implication that #civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness... Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is #war. Of those two things, you have either one, or the other. Not both."

Ursula K. Le Guin. The Left Hand of Darkness (1969).

#ursulakleguin #ursulaleguin #leguin

(Der erste war natürlich #PlanetDerHabenichtse, heute #FreieGeister.)

Und wie viel hatte ich anders in Erinnerung bzw. den Roman im Gedächtnis umgeschrieben! Das war spannend.

Und ich hab ein mind-blowing Zitat wiedergefunden:

"'Kennst du das Symbol?'
Er sah es lange mit seltsamer Miene an, erwiderte aber: 'Nein.'
'Man findet es auf der Erde und auf Hain-Devenant und auf Chiffewar. Es heißt Yin und Yang.'"

Wie hat mich #UrsulaLeGuin damals, Anfang der 1980er, mit dieser Vorstellung geflasht!

#DieLinkeHandDerDunkelheit (1969) ist Immer noch ein sehr guter Roman, sehr gut gealtert. Natürlich werden Genderfragen heute differenzierter abgehandelt, vielleicht auch tiefer. Aber hey, das Buch ist ein halbes Jahrhundert alt. Und ich darf sagen, es hat mich auf einer tiefen Ebene beeinflusst; dieser doch schon recht alte und doch noch recht cis Mann hier hat daraus fürs Leben einiges an Lockerheit und Offenheit mitgenommen als junger Mensch. Der zweite große Einfluss von #UrsulaLeGuin. 🖤

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#Quote #Reader #UrsulaLeGuin

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For a long time, more than twenty years, surely, all my computers -- desktops, laptops and standalone servers -- have had names other than the default antonio-laptop or similar set during OS installation. As I tend to think of systems like places where you can go or be at, and as a fan of #UrsulaLeGuin, they have all been named after cities of villages from her books. So, I could be antonio@erhenrang when at my laptop and ssh into the server abbenay to become antonio@abbenay.
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The great thing about the Reddit boycott is that I'm actually spending time reading the Ursula Le Guin book I got from the library.

#Reddit #Books #UrsulaLeGuin #WastingTime #LibrariesRock

"Who knows what I came here to do?"
"You'll find those who know. And then you'll do it. I don't fear it. If you serve the Enemy, so do we all: all's lost and nothing's to lose. If not, then you have what we men have lost: a destiny; and in following it you may bring hope to us all.. . . "
City of Illusions by Ursula LeGuin
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#UrsulaKLeGuin
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#Bookstodon
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#FictionalCharactersLifeAdviceToANewGraduate

"Who knows what I came here to do?"
"You'll find those who know. And then you'll do it. I don't fear it. If you serve the Enemy, so do we all: all's lost and nothing's to lose. If not, then you have what we men have lost: a destiny; and in following it you may bring hope to us all.. . . "
City of Illusions by Ursula LeGuin
#UrsulaLeGuin
#FictionalCharactersLifeAdviceToANewGraduate

La natura ostile. Visioni e prospettive nella narrativa contemporanea https://www.carmillaonline.com/2023/04/21/la-natura-ostile/ #post-apocalittico #MatteoMeschiari #SerenellaIovino #EugeneStoermer #NiccolòScaffai #eco-distopico #Segnalazioni #JamesBallard #PaoloZanotti #UrsulaLeGuin #AmitavGhosh #AnnieProulx #antropocene #PaulCrutzen #ecocritica #MartinAmis #PaoloLago #natura

#AmReading #UrsulaLeGuin's Always Coming Home. It's a slow, but absolutely fascinating read.

Last night I arrived at an entry called Four Romantic Tales. As I settled in for a comfy read, the first tale 2 pages long caught me off-guard so hard I had to put the book away before I could focus on the next tale.

#books #SFF

Started reading #UrsulaLeGuin's Always Coming Home. It's a slow, but absolutely fascinating read.

Last night I arrived at an entry called Four Romantic Tales. As I settled in for a comfy read, the first tale 2 pages long caught me off-guard so hard I had to put the book away before I could focus on the next tale.

Three books that had a huge influence on me, read when I was 18 and 19. #books #bookstodon #sciencefiction #bookwyrm #ramblingreaders #Moorcock #Ursulaleguin

Review:
Four Ways to Forgiveness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced
Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0 stars

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2cb0aa71-0a8e-49cd-9bdc-b975c0f07460

#scifi #ursulaleguin #ursulakleguin #thestorygraph #bookreview

"The Other Wind" #UrsulaLeGuin. 3.5 stars. When men have the wisdom to let go of striving for supremacy, and return to the earth.

Reading time 3 days, 70 pages/day

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #BookWyrm #Fantasy

https://wyrms.de/user/wildwoila/review/37365/s/thw-wisdom-to-let-go#anchor-37365