I read the titular story and Dancing to Ganam. I had already read the Shobies’ Story. I’m reading a 2 volume set of Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle, but I’m trying to mark what I’ve read along the way.

I enjoyed both stories. Le Guin uses sci-fi to explore our humanity and possible alternative ways of life.

Dancing to Ganam really struck me with this idea of how our perspective gets warped, quite literally in the case of the story. How it’s hard for us to objectively observe anything because we often want to interpret it a certain way.

Fisherman of the Inland Sea was yet another look at another type of society! And the dangers of human arrogance, I suppose. The unforeseen consequences of this desire for knowledge and discovery at whatever cost.

Always a thoughtful and experience reading Le Guin!