#hainish

[kettricken]

Planet of Exile by Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Sanrio

[biblioklept]

Riff on Ursula K. Le Guin's collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters

Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1975 volume The Wind’s Twelve Quarters collects seventeen short stories, offering, as the author puts it in her foreword, “a retrospective” of her career to date: “a roughly chronological survey of my short stories during the first ten years after I broke into print.” Le Guin adds that The Wind’s Twelve Quarters is “by no means a complete collection” of her short stories to…

[littlestpersimmon]

I just saw you mention Ursula Le Guin in your last answered ask. I’ve been meaning to start reading stuff by her. I want to regardless, but do some of her books have trans characters?

[quietflorilegium]

“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”

Genly Ai, Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Left Hand of Darkness"

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

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[l3st1b0urn3s-707]

Following my hyperfixation with The left hand of darkness I read Winter's king by Ursula K. Le Guin, so let's talk about it!

It's a short story that takes place in Gethen (yay!). It's about king Argaven XVII so it takes place a few generations after TLHOD (since king Argaven XV was the ruler of Karhide in that novel). In this time the Ekumen has already settled in Gethen, and the planet is about to experience many political changes. Basically Argaven is kidnapped and her memories are altered, so now she'll have a journey trying to get them back and rule her country without any external influences, leaving her (at the time) baby daughter behind.

This story is particularly interesting because Gethen's people are reffered to with femenine pronouns instead of the generic masculine used in TLHOD.

You can find this story in The wind's twelve quarters, a collection of short stories by Le Guin, most of them being part of the Hainish cycle (which apparently is the universe where most of her sci-fi stories/books take place, and it's all about the ekumen and that stuff, it looks so interesting!).

Oh, and as a fun fact I also just discovered that there's another short story that takes place in Gethen called Coming of age in Karhide, which sounds so interesting!!! I swear, this woman's books are going to take my whole soul.

I also want to mention that I discovered this story through @evelasco-art 's gorgeous illustration of it, so go check their account out because they're trully talented!

[pathos-bathos]

Ursula K Le Guin I love you so much

[emerald-truth]

one thing about Ursula Le Guin is she's gonna put something in her story about leaving and returning, about exile, and the significance of a home

[fyodor-pavlovich-karamazov]

recently got a friend into reading the hainish cycle based on my constant nagging them about it, and saying that both the friend and the themes of the books are very gender leftism. turns out their polish mum read a lot of Ursula leguinns work back in Poland in the eighties, which bypassed censorship on account of it being fantasy. I thought I was so original and alternative by reccomending it, and it turns out that apparently leguinn was massive in Poland. anyway, if you haven't read any of her work, I highly recommend you do as she was way ahead of her time, and if nothing else her writing is very compelling

[diariodeunrincondemi]

When Ursula K. said "To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future" and also said "To deny the past is to deny the future. A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it"

[jiubilant]

starfield needs a telepathic wild pig to cry BESPEAK ME, MAN at an alien fleeing in horror

[kettricken]

Rocannon’s World by Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Sanrio

[spookyabuki]

Hi all! I'm planning on starting a TTRPG campaign for a setting I made called Shadow Protocol. Right now, we have three players and I'm looking for two more.

If you're a fan of: • Alien • Blade Runner • Citizen Sleeper • Ghost in the Shell • The Hainish Cycle • Murderbot • Signalis • SOMA

You'll probably enjoy it! We don't have a set meeting time yet (though currently, we're all in American time zones I think). I also haven't decided what system we're going to use, though it's between Carbon 2185 and Neon City Overdrive. We'll be using Roll20 to meet.

Anyway, if you're interested, send me a DM and I can hook you up with the Discord invite!

Also please be cool. No racists, transphobes, etc. We'll probably be dealing with some at least semi-serious themes, so if that turns you off, this may not be the game for you.

(Art by AlexAntropov86)

[quietflorilegium]

“How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.”

Estraven, Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Left Hand of Darkness"

[indescriptequilibrium]

these two pages r rly relevant dis monday afternoon

[vifetoile]

Health and good work, Courage, patience, and peace.

Hainish mantra, from "Old Music and the Slave Woman" by Ursula K le Guin

As a Hainish mantra, this quote is in the same 'verse as The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness