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A review by briannadasilva
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Guin
4.0
My 3rd UKLG book! Hurrah!
The stories I liked most in this collection we're:
- "The Rock That Changed Things" (a thoughtful little throwing-off-ones-oppressors type story)
- The three churten theory stories: "The Shobies' Story," "Dancing to Ganam," and "Another Story/A Fisherman of the Inland Sea."
The last story – the one that gave this book its title – was just... man. Stirring, human, thought-provoking. Like all her stories, but this one stood out to me the most.
The last story also illustrated just how weird her "churten theory" technology is, and I'm feeling quite glad such a thing doesn't exist, and hoping no one ever invents it, because I was noping out quite a bit there. Too weirdddd. Too disconcertingly paradoxical.
Perhaps it's better that humans travel in more natural ways. But then again, as this story so poetically and emotionally demonstrates, that creates all sorts of trouble for space travel and its incomprehensible distances.
See what I mean... this is good stuff to think about.
The stories I liked most in this collection we're:
- "The Rock That Changed Things" (a thoughtful little throwing-off-ones-oppressors type story)
- The three churten theory stories: "The Shobies' Story," "Dancing to Ganam," and "Another Story/A Fisherman of the Inland Sea."
The last story – the one that gave this book its title – was just... man. Stirring, human, thought-provoking. Like all her stories, but this one stood out to me the most.
The last story also illustrated just how weird her "churten theory" technology is, and I'm feeling quite glad such a thing doesn't exist, and hoping no one ever invents it, because I was noping out quite a bit there. Too weirdddd. Too disconcertingly paradoxical.
Perhaps it's better that humans travel in more natural ways. But then again, as this story so poetically and emotionally demonstrates, that creates all sorts of trouble for space travel and its incomprehensible distances.
See what I mean... this is good stuff to think about.