Final set of Novellas from the Collection, and a final word:   On the High Marsh 3/5 Stars So this story is another Earthsea story. Purportedly taking place on a relatively untouched island from the Earthsea archipelago, this is a variation on a common trope: the mysterious stranger come to town. I guess if I read more Earthsea novels and stories, I might be better equipped to place this one within the continuum of stories, but I can’t, so I can’t really weigh in on […]

Part twoooooo. Novella 8 A Woman’s Liberation 1994  4/5 Stars Another Hain novella, this one narrated by an “asset” or in our words, slave. In this particular society, these assets are total slaves to their masters through legal status, through training, and through their utter dependence to the system itself. Our narrator, used and abused by her masters, in this particular society, all women, she finds herself liberated by order of fiat by her new master. This presents a real problem. Like in much of […]

I got this book as part of my free trial with Audible….it’s 34 hours long….it’s 13 novellas. Deals!   Novella 1: Vaster than Empires and More Slow 1975 – 4/5 stars I haven’t read any of the Hainish novels. And in fact, I haven’t read much of Ursula K Le Guin at all. So I will have to reverse engineer any of the novels that come across in this collection that refer back to any series or worldview. I THINK it will be ok, because […]