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The sense I got from The Dispossessed was that it was concerned with showing how this society had a completely different set of problems than our own, and letting the nature of those problems and what they affected speak for itself -- basically an honest, non-rhetorical "is this not better?" Which is just another way of saying that's it's well-written utopian fiction. Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Oct 28, 2013 |
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I'm pretty sure Omelas is directed at Western, first-world civilization in general, but whether it's an outright condemnation or not I don't know. EDIT: That is to say, it doesn't represent us, it represents something better than us that's still deeply unsettling and horrifying.
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General Battuta posted:LeGuin is one of the few writers whose prose gets more and more impressive the more you learn about writing. As a naive teenager I was like 'eh, this is fine workmanlike stuff', but no, turns out, she's a genius! Nah there are lots of authors like that. Most of them just don't write fantasy. As a huge nerd I do still appreciate the rarity of that combination, though. 
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That quote's from Genry's point of view, isn't it? Before he learned much about the world, even.
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