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I don't agree on some of those authors, particularly Tolkien and Heinlein. I'm vreading The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and it's still a great story 40 years after it was written. When Heinlein just tells a story without too much sermonizing, he can't be beat.
About Le Guin; I challenge you to read or re-read The Left Hand Of Darkness, or The Dispossessed. To name just two of hers labeled under this same genre. The hard scientist, their ideas have come to pass, or been proven ridiculous, making said authors amazingly right yet boring or ridiculous and so, equally unworthy of the time to re-read let alone read in the first place. The fantasy wo/man, that depends solely on how you personally have aged into your own imagination. It is or isn't worth your time based on how time has worn on you or been worn by you. But then there is the anthropologist. Writing so far into the future of time, ideology, gender, socio-economics and the greater over arch of general philosophical investigation. What have you actually outgrown, vs. that which time itself has outgrown?Just saw a Le Guin challenge that needed to be made... let me know.
I recently vread The Dispossessed, and I agree, it's still very worthwhile today. Still haven't been able to get my hands on Left Hand of Darkness.
Oh, you MUST do yourself the treat as soon as can be done. Where we are in the world at this moment, like every moment in the past, unlike any other, yet it feels while reading that it can only grow exponentially in poignancy over time. And I seriously mean from day to day, if not into the next hundred years and beyond, if you believe we'll make it that long. Ha...
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I don't agree on some of those authors, particularly Tolkien and Heinlein. I'm vreading The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and it's still a great story 40 years after it was written. When Heinlein just tells a story without too much sermonizing, he can't be beat.
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About Le Guin; I challenge you to read or re-read The Left Hand Of Darkness, or The Dispossessed. To name just two of hers labeled under this same genre. The hard scientist, their ideas have come to pass, or been proven ridiculous, making said authors amazingly right yet boring or ridiculous and so, equally unworthy of the time to re-read let alone read in the first place. The fantasy wo/man, that depends solely on how you personally have aged into your own imagination. It is or isn't worth your time based on how time has worn on you or been worn by you. But then there is the anthropologist. Writing so far into the future of time, ideology, gender, socio-economics and the greater over arch of general philosophical investigation. What have you actually outgrown, vs. that which time itself has outgrown?Just saw a Le Guin challenge that needed to be made... let me know.
I recently vread The Dispossessed, and I agree, it's still very worthwhile today. Still haven't been able to get my hands on Left Hand of Darkness.
Oh, you MUST do yourself the treat as soon as can be done. Where we are in the world at this moment, like every moment in the past, unlike any other, yet it feels while reading that it can only grow exponentially in poignancy over time. And I seriously mean from day to day, if not into the next hundred years and beyond, if you believe we'll make it that long. Ha...
