I had intended to cover my reading on this blog as well as games, but not really gotten around to it despite reading a fair amount. So I am going to have a quick run through a few items in this post; The Dispossessed: Ursula K. Le Guin (1974) – This is great, one of the best SF novels I have read and surprisingly so. I had read some of her young adult fantasy a few years back, The Wizard of Earthsea and its followers. The Dispossessed is very different beast, an allegorical story exploring leaving a hippy collectivist commune to engage with the capitalist – communist split world. Being a Sci-Fi novel the commune is colony scraping by on a desolate moon and the imperial world the eden below. A physicist, Shevek, betrays his own anarchist people to return to the mother planet on a quest to heal what divides them. Of course reconciliation is harder than anticipated due to the differing world views and entrenched prejudice. Le Guins' skill is in her character building and ...
Histories & Fantasies