![]() ![]() Le Guin book he read was The Tombs of Atuan. Jo Walton on her surprising cure for writer's blockĭaniel Heath Justice selects The Tombs of Atuanĭaniel Heath Justice says the first Ursula K. Her acclaimed novels include Necessity, The Just City, Tooth and Claw and Among Others. Jo Walton is a Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer from Montreal. ![]() Le Guin here is writing science fiction at its absolute best, giving us through new worlds, new societies that contrast with ours, showing us how science can change the world, but doing it through a close up deeply felt story of somebody who, though in fact alien, enlarges our view of humanity." It's also a portrait of a working scientist that is quite unlike the way science is usually treated in fiction. ![]() Because it's a political anarchy, Shevek is a character whose axioms and way of looking at the world diverge from ours in many ways. Shevek's world of Anarres isn't perfect, but it is very different from ours in details that are thoroughly thought through and feel real. It's the story of his love, life, freedom, fatherhood and a theory of physics that will allow simultaneous faster than light communication. " The Dispossessed is a book with a helical structure - the story of a life that wraps, so the chapters alternate in time, interweaving the story of how Shevek came to leave one planet with the story of how he came to leave another. Le Guin's novel The Dispossessed as "science fiction at its absolute best." () Montreal writer Jo Walton looks back on Ursula K. ![]()
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