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  <title>The Birthday of the World: And Other Stories</title>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fabulous!  I love the stories Le Guin comes up with!  This is not your stereotypical SciFi novel.  Le Guin creates new societies, which happen to be on other planets, and write rather simple stories about them so that we, the readers, can gain insight.  It is a study in anthropology and sociology.  I felt my brain thinking and philosophizing as I read.  Felt good.<br/><br/>This collection of short stories, and the novella at the end, is the perfect way to get into this type of science fiction if you're not used to it.  The order of the stories has a very nice (almost poetic) flow to them, but the reader definitely does not have to read them in order.<br/><br/>Loved it!]]></body>
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