I generally enjoy Ursula K Leguin…in that I like her writing more than I don’t. And that more or less explains my feelings for this one. It started off very slowly and meh-ly for me….in fact I stopped part way through and read different books. But then toward the end, as we started getting closer to the meat and the explanation in the novel I really got into it. This is one of her Hainish novels, but the setup and delivery could very well take […]
Writing Science Fiction #LikeAGirl
During the past few days, a couple of interesting stories crossed my screen and they are so perfectly related to my current review that they simply must be referenced. First came the #LikeAGirl campaign from Always, encouraging us to turn that pejorative expression into a compliment. Then came this story from NPR about women writers in science fiction: Women are Destroying Science Fiction and That’s OK — They Created It. As I have just finished Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic The Dispossessed, I must say […]