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I think this might be a dnf boys…I really liked the first story as I’ve wanted to read for ages: “the ones who walk away from omelas” but it was less of a short story and more of a few pages of a thought experiment lol. Some of the stories at the start were good but I just lost interest in the end. Stories weren’t particularly character driven.

Ahhhhhh I didn’t realise this collection has “the ones who walk away from omelas” SO HYPED TO READ IT

Finished "The Poacher" ( 2/5: trigger warning for rape outta nowhere); "Sur" (4/5: a cheeky tale of a journey that no male expedition could have accomplished—of of anonymity); and "She Unnames Them" (5/5: I think this story encapsulates all of what makes Le Guin's work uniquely hers).

Finished "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" (5/5 - I wish we really were able to decipher the language and culture of animals!); "The Wife's Story" (2.5/5 - a nice little subversion of the classic tale); "The Rule of Names" (3/5 - finally, a world she built that is expanded upon! I'll have to read more of Earthsea); and "Small Change" (3/5 - Coincidentally, I wrote a poem with a similar concept in elementary school).

Finished "The Fliers of Gy" (3/5 - I finally figured out what Ms. Le Guin is going for—a kind of Reader's Digest travel guide to the universe, with snippets of the way of life of different alien civilizations. This one was pretty interesting!); "The Silence of the Asonu" (3/5 - the reactions of Terrans to an alien way of life were realistically bleak); and "The Ascent of the North Face" (4/5 - Hilarious. Genius.)