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Left wing science fiction you say?
(startrek.website)
Saw a post here that mentioned Michael Moorcock as an anarchist 😎
My man moorcock is unapologetic.
I recommend The Land Leviathan (Black Attila conquers racist America) and The Champion of Garathorm (Hero becomes a woman to fulfill destiny and save the day) not because they are good but because they broach taboo topics decades ahead of the curve.
What’s a good place to start? I only really know her for invoking the divine right of kings like a boss 😎
I really like The Dispossessed.
I must say this recommendation is delightfully on theme, nicely done 😎
Absolutely, and on topic for this post.
However, I found it a hard, dark read (as is the topic of the book), and she wrote a lot of high quality but easier to read stuff in both sci-fi and fantasy. But it's so long I read her I don't even remember the titles except for the Earthsea trilogy.
BTW, IT people might recognize the term Ansible which she invented.
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/novels-and-collections
We read through the earthsea series here and really enjoyed it.
This caught my attention
I’m a total sucker for beautiful prose, especially Gormenghast.
Do you have any memorable lines that stuck with you?
I have to admit that my read-through was out loud to my children, so I cannot directly recall any particularly potent verses.
Also, outside of some specific memetastic prose in The Wheel of Time and The Stormlight Archive, I am not one for recalling specific wording. I think it's because of the amount of media I consume. Brain rot by quantity.