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The Unreal and the Real

The Unreal and the Real

Selected Stories, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands

2012

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A collection of short stories in which Le Guin once again imagines alternative civilizations, or in one case an alternative history, with a strong feminist bend. My favorite of them was “Solitude”, about a girl who grows up on an alien planet studied by her mother, a Hainish observer, but ends up going so thoroughly native that she has trouble fitting into “normal” society again.

July 18, 2020