#ursulaleguin — Public Fediverse posts
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In reactie op de huidige teloorgang van de wereld, en de eerste presidentiële overwinning van het oranje monster, schreef #UrsulaLeGuin : Wees als water. Water beweegt met alles mee, maar blijft ook altijd zichzelf en is niet stuk te krijgen.
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #LIterature #ursula_k_le_guin #water
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Frage an die Fedifreaks, ich möchte anfangen #ursulaleguin zu lesen:
welches Buch eignet sich zum Einstieg?
gerne boosten
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How to build #solarpunk (the aesthetic vision without the social change) - watch now 00:59s
Instructions were unclear. Penis stuck in an #elysium sky paradise for the rich while the poor are burning on the wastelands.
Do not. Walk. Towards. Omelas.
#omelas #dystopia #cyberpunk #scifi #ursulaLeGuin #LeGuin #greenwashing #climateCatastrophe
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J’ai plein de trucs « sérieux » à lire mais... Je suis en vacances. Alors j’ai entamé « Les dépossédés » d’Ursula Le Guin.
« - Eh bien, vous m’avez, dit-il, et il sourit. Vous avez votre anarchiste. Qu’allez-vous donc en faire? » (fin du premier chapitre)
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I‘ve been working on something for our PNW patron spirit Ursula Le Guin, and have loved this line from “The Farthest Shore” since encountering it.
A crown of trees seemed the appropriate tribute. 🌲👑🌲
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Book Review: The Disposessed
A SF novel about two worlds operating with two different philosophies.
Both insisted they were right and the other was wrong. Both minimized contact with each other.
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=20&id=399
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Why is Science Fiction Holding US Back?
They need to imagine a world where we get along much better:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=26&id=545
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Started reading #Lavinia by #UrsulaLeGuin and WOW. JUST WOW. I didn't know books could do that. I feel I will love this book.
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New life update #blog post!!
I'm in a transitional period in my life, moving from #Germany to #Spain, and I wanted to express more deeply what the immigration experience means for me. As well as what home means.
I've structured my post to mirror #Virgil's #Aeneid, taking inspiration also from #UrsulaLeGuin's #TheDispossed and #Dante's #inferno.
The journey I want to talk about involves geographical displacement, but the real distance travelled takes place inside.
https://sofiabelen.github.io/blog/my-journey-home-is-to-a-place-ive-never-been/
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And I can't stress enough that this isn't about being jaded or cynical. Take the inverse, let's call it Salemo. "This place has only unending suffering where everyone is tortured all the time and there's no hope." Boring. Literally the tvtropes page of Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy. "They do this because it ensures a perfect life for one child." Wow! Mass self-sacrifice! What's so important about the child that they all agree to undergo extreme suffering? Tell me more! Is there a lesson I could apply to my own life? I don't believe in perfect joy without a catch, sure, but I don't believe in perfect pain without a catch either. Even stories that start bad and end bad don't stay bad all the way through. Instead it's "Ah, things are terrible. Oh look, the main character is trying to turn things around! Oh no, they failed because of some tragic flaw in their character that they couldn't overcome!" And I say "Wow, what a bad fate, I should think about what kind of flaws I have."I'm almost wondering if this was her actual point? To play around with what makes a story complete? Not just call me an edgelord?
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I think where the disconnect lies is that I'm engaging with her story as just that, a story. The purpose of a story is both to entertain and to convey some information to get us to think about our own life and experience. An interesting story makes us have interesting thoughts. The story of "this place is perfect and nothing ever goes wrong" isn't interesting, but not because we think that's naive, it's because there's no useful information being conveyed there. Okay, they're perfect. Why? How did they become this way? Can I apply anything they do to my life so that I can make things better? Oh, you don't want to tell me? Then it's not a full narrative, it's only a snapshot of a setting. My brain is starving here.Oh, they torture a child! Wow, what a shocking moral dilemma. One innocent's suffering for the welfare of thousands, hm, that makes my brain think about whether I would want to live there. Now I'm engaged and interested, not because a child is being tortured but because there's actually a topic of discussion.
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So, I'm thinking about Omelas. Maybe I'm misreading, but the point is to make you think about why you didn't believe in the perfect place and felt it's more believable when a kid was being tortured to make it perfect, right? The whole "The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting." Like, not really? Maybe that was true in her context. All the pedants and sophisticates I see constantly stress that things are terrible right now and that we have the power to make them better. (This could be just a byproduct of social media used for mass political mobilization?)
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Member of my (online) #writing group says my world building and style remind him of Ursula K Le Guin. 🥰
mouse drop!
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I just finished The Dispossessed and it hit me at a particular moment of my life of transition (and of coming back home), so I ended up writing a longer piece unpacking some of the ideas. I adored the book, it's so rich in ideas, and the writing is just exquisite. I loved her use of metaphors and symbolism, while still feeling very down-to-earth (no pun intended) and readable.
https://sofiabelen.github.io/literature/the-dispossessed/
#TheDispossessed #UrsulaLeGuin #SciFi #BookReview #ScienceFiction
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"As for the stuff in your computer that pretends to correct your punctuation or grammar, disable it. These programs are on a pitifully low level of competence; they’ll chop your sentences short and stupidify your writing. Competence is up to you."
— Ursula Le Guin, Steering the Craft
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“Read it now” – Ursula K. Le Guin
Weaving folklore, fairy tale & Norse myth into a shimmering, witty & slyly subversive tapestry, Naomi Mitchison’s TRAVEL LIGHT – a rediscovered gem of classic fantasy writing – has just been republished in the UK by Virago
https://store.virago.co.uk/products/travel-light
#Scottish #literature #fantasy #kidlit #20thcentury #womenswriting #ursulaLeGuin #NaomiMitchison #folklore #mythology
