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| Original Title: | The Birthday of the World |
| ISBN: | 0060509066 (ISBN13: 9780060509064) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Hainish Cycle #9 |
Ursula K. Le Guin
Paperback | Pages: 362 pages Rating: 4.3 | 4033 Users | 362 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (Hainish Cycle #9) |
| Author | : | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 362 pages |
| Published | : | March 4th 2003 by Harper Perennial (first published March 5th 2002) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Short Stories. Fiction. Fantasy. Speculative Fiction. Anthologies. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, five Hugo Awards and five Nebula Awards, the renowned writer Ursula K. Le Guin has, in each story and novel, created a provocative, ever-evolving universe filled with diverse worlds and rich characters reminiscent of our earthly selves. Now, in The Birthday of the World, this gifted artist returns to these worlds in eight brilliant short works, including a never-before-published novella, each of which probes the essence of humanity.Rating About Books The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (Hainish Cycle #9)
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I was talking to my friend about Ursula K. Le Guin and he said I had to read this collection, that one of the stories in it had changed his life. Turns out there were so many outstanding stories in The Birthday of the World that I couldn't even hazard a guess as to which one he'd meant. This is some of Le Guin's finest work and although several stories reference her other writings, you don't need to be catch the references to appreciate it.Le Guin is a master at worldbuilding - building so manyI initially didn't think I'd love this book as much as I did - but here I am, thrilled and happy. I don't think there's any story here that I didn't enjoy, and there are a few.This is a book about sexuality and its social meaning - about what it's like for a society to be composed of members who go into heat once a month and only grow sexual organs then. About what it's like to have four categories of people (two genders, two moieties, which are strange and abstract to describe, but easy enough
I liked all the stories here, but Paradises Lost I loved. I thought about it since yesterday, and decided to knock this book up from four to five stars because of Paradises Lost, and that's the story I'd like to write about here. This novella is about a generational ship travelling from Earth to a new, distant planet, to study it and see whether or not it can be colonized. After reading this, I was considering whether such an enterprise would ever be successful, not because of technological
Aaaaaaaaaaaaargh! Sooooo goooooood!When I learned that Le Guin's father was an anthropologist it explained a huge amount to me. Her SF "what ifs" aren't much along the lines of "what if there was magic goo that could make and fix everything?" or "what if aliens built an interstellar subway system then disappeared?" They are more along the lines of, "what if the female:male ration was 1:16 instead of 1:1?" or "what if most people were bi-sexual, with a minority of heterosexuals?" or "what would
A consistently thought-provoking and solidly written collection of short stories, unified I would say by the theme of human relationships, particularly romantic, under the stress of configurations that are unusual for modern Western sensibilities. The Birthday of the World in its entirety is a good embodiment of Le Guin's stated intention, in Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places, to tell stories that are not centred on conflict but rather on other types of
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin is a collection of eight stories and two short essays, afterwords. Six of the stories are from the Hainish cycle. In most collections there is variability. Some stories are better than others. And I guess that's true of this one as well, but I'd be hard pressed to say which one isn't as good as another. They're all good, or very good, or even better. Of the first seven six involve sexuality, and the other one war. The final story,
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