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Okay, I have to admit that maybe reading the first five books in the Hainish Cycle back-to-back was too much Le Guin.
I need something light and funny after The Dispossessed.
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The best new sci-fi books this month from Stephen King to an Ursula K. Le Guin reissue | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2429224-the-best-new-science-fiction-books-of-may-2024/

Did [[Dostoyevsky]] influence [[Le Guin]] and [[The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas]]?

Morning cuddles and some Ursula Le Guin.

The best new sci-fi books this month from Stephen King to an Ursula K. Le Guin reissue | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2429224-the-best-new-science-fiction-books-of-may-2024/

10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:
Robert Lynn Asprin
Somtow Sucharitkul
Jo Clayton
Tanith Lee
John Varley
Diane Duane
Stephen Brust
Nancy Collins
Lemony Snickett
Barbara Hambly
(That was made trickier by my self imposed not wanting to duplicate any of the authors in @… list, wh…

@… if you like Ursula Le Guin but mostly know her from novels, I recommend her volume of short stories "The Birthday of the World".
If you like Le Guin but only know her (relatively) early works like "Left Hand of Darkness" or "The Dispossessed", I recommend her volume of short stories "The Birthday of the World" to see how her perspective h…

“The pursuit of art, then, by artist or audience, is the pursuit of liberty. If you accept that, you see at once why truly serious, people, reject and mistrust the arts, labeling them as ‘escapism.’” Ursula K. Le Guin

In most of the world, it is tough to explain free software and open source. It is like that Ursula K. Le Guin quote, about the inescapable power of capitalism, and how difficult to imagine an alternative to this power, in its time as difficult as it was to imagine an escape from the divine right of kings. But in Gaza, before the Al Aqsa Flood, the expression of this power was different. Capitalism was present, but it was not all powerful. It was easy to imagine an alternative, because Gaza, a self-contained enclosure, was forcefully cut off from the market forces of rest of the world. In Gaza, to teach people about free software and open source hardware, was to teach them how to survive. Because by accessing open repositories, even people with no capital could build a tech scene, could develop new technology. This was Mohammed Abu Matar's life work, which he has had to interrupt now as the boundaries restricting the entrance of the outside forces into Gaza have been pierced. I want everyone who has ever contributed to open source hardware and software, to consider reaching out with a donation to Mohammed and to Gaza, to let them know they are not alone: https://www.gofundme.com/f/protect-an-open-source-engineer-and-his-family

Having to write this about, of all things, a Studio Ghibli film, is so sad that it's comical:
"But in the film, evil has been comfortably externalized in a villain, the wizard Kumo/Cob, who can simply be killed, thus solving all problems."
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There are so many good Science Fiction and Fantasy series available as part of the Audible Plus catalog right now.
I hope that the authors got a good deal, because an Audible membership includes access to much of the catalogs of Charlie Stross, Peter F. Hamilton, Drew Hayes, Guy Gavriel Kay, Ursula Le Guin, Lois McMaster Bujold, Tamsyn Muir, Diana Gabaldon, Sarah J. Mass, & Robin Hobb. Not to mention Andy Serkis' reading of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit.

There are so many good Science Fiction and Fantasy series available as part of the Audible Plus catalog right now.
I hope that the authors got a good deal, because an Audible membership includes access to much of the catalogs of Charlie Stross, Peter F. Hamilton, Drew Hayes, Guy Gavriel Kay, Ursula Le Guin, Lois McMaster Bujold, Tamsyn Muir, Diana Gabaldon, Sarah J. Mass, & Robin Hobb. Not to mention Andy Serkis' reading of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit.