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  1. “Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.”

    —Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed

    #Reading #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Dispossessed #UrsulaKLeGuin #LeGuin

  2. “Oh, I see...But what do working people do on Anarres for a bit of jollity, to escape the woes of the world together for a night?”

    Shevek looked blank. “Well, we ...I don’t know. Perhaps our woes are inescapable?”

    “Quaint,” Pae said, and smiled disarmingly.

    —Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed

    #Reading #LeGuin #Dispossessed #UrsulaKLeGuin #Quotes

  3. It's not how it's generally used, but In my head canon #eutopia is distinguished from a #utopia by the dynamic change. As a utopia is stagnant unchanging, perfect and final, the eutopia keeps changing. I'm calling #UsrulaLeGuin #dispossessed an eutopia because it was defined by the infinitely burning #revolution within a revolution.

    An eutopia might be easier to write because it can have its own 'character arc'. I think this approach can unlock a lot of the #solarpunk creativity. Writing utopia is hard.