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From BBC Radio 4:
Adapted by Judith Adams
Science fiction with incredible humanity from a brilliant feminist writer. This is the first dramatisation of Ursula Le Guin's 1969 novel which is as groundbreaking in its approach to gender as when it was first published over 45 years ago.
Episode 1:
In a snow-changed city in the middle of an Ice Age on an alien world, one young man prepares for the biggest mission of his life. Alone and unarmed, Genly Ai has been sent from Earth to persuade the world of Ge ...more
Adapted by Judith Adams
Science fiction with incredible humanity from a brilliant feminist writer. This is the first dramatisation of Ursula Le Guin's 1969 novel which is as groundbreaking in its approach to gender as when it was first published over 45 years ago.
Episode 1:
In a snow-changed city in the middle of an Ice Age on an alien world, one young man prepares for the biggest mission of his life. Alone and unarmed, Genly Ai has been sent from Earth to persuade the world of Ge ...more
4.5 stars (good soup)
There is so much in this book and I had a blast with it. I think I missed reading some classic sci-fi and I am so happy to finally get to Le Guin because her writing and worldbuilding was amazing.
Might write a proper review one day.
I tried reading it in Romanian but then quickly switched to English. Much enjoyable.
Esteban. Mitzy-pitzy.
There is so much in this book and I had a blast with it. I think I missed reading some classic sci-fi and I am so happy to finally get to Le Guin because her writing and worldbuilding was amazing.
Might write a proper review one day.
I tried reading it in Romanian but then quickly switched to English. Much enjoyable.
Esteban. Mitzy-pitzy.
This book took....three tries. Finally switched to the audio book and all was absorbed, instead of getting caught up in the unfamiliar-because-made-up words, I could consider the ideas behind a genderless planet of humans.
It was an unexpected lesson in the differences of cultures. The main character was so caught up in figuring out how to understand a world without male or female, just people, that he lost sight of a lot of communication variations. That words, phrases, tones...can all have com ...more
It was an unexpected lesson in the differences of cultures. The main character was so caught up in figuring out how to understand a world without male or female, just people, that he lost sight of a lot of communication variations. That words, phrases, tones...can all have com ...more
This is considered a classic, but i guess you had to be there. It is a mostly boring political drama that studiously ignores its most interesting ideas. I couldn't finish it.
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