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A review by elenajohansen
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin
3.0
This collection didn't set me on fire the way Four Ways to Forgiveness did--but then, that was composed of interconnected novellas, and this was a grab bag, many of which I simply didn't like.
The star of the show is definitely the titular novella, which I enjoyed--a story combining second-chance romance, alien anthropology, time travel, and a smidgen of Japanese culture. It's rare in the Hainish Cycle works that Terra gets more than a mention, so having a Terran character at all is fantastic, and working a bit of her home country into the narrative as the fable, which the novella is an inventive future-retelling of, was brilliant.
The star of the show is definitely the titular novella, which I enjoyed--a story combining second-chance romance, alien anthropology, time travel, and a smidgen of Japanese culture. It's rare in the Hainish Cycle works that Terra gets more than a mention, so having a Terran character at all is fantastic, and working a bit of her home country into the narrative as the fable, which the novella is an inventive future-retelling of, was brilliant.