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| Science Fiction Fans : Favorite post apocalyptic or dystopian future novel? | | 121 | thesmellofbooks, Yesterday 8:39pm |
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Noticing that you liked Ursula Le Guin's poetry and have read several post-apocalyptic books, have you ever read her Always Coming Home? Reads like an anthropological study of a future post-apocalyptic society, including their songs and poetry, and one of my favorites of her books. ... as being very true to the tradition on which it was based. This is also something I really liked about Ursula LeGuin's Always Coming Home, which was like an anthropological analysis of a post-apocalyptic society and included poems and stories from the culture. What a great quote! Yes, her parental background was a great influence. My favorite of her works, Always Coming Home, is explicitly anthropological...of a future, post-apocalyptic society. What many who read LHoD for the first time now miss is what a ground-breaker it was at the time it was ... #197ronicats
Thanks for the link to Always Coming Home--I love Ursala Le Guin and did not know about this one.
(edited for spelling) ... have gone back on my TBR pile, and I also like to have a nonfiction around to read a chapter or two from at bedtime.
Always Coming Home is a favorite Le Guin for me. But I love the Earthsea series the most of all. ... to me over the years that I would happily reread:
1. Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Samuel R. Delany
2. Always Coming Home, Ursula K. Le Guin
3. Out of the Everywhere, James Tiptree Jr (story collection)
4. Dune, Frank Herbert
5. Dreamsnake, Vonda McIntyre
6. Th ... A few of my dearest favorites, from teenager to middle ager, off the top of my head:
Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany
Little, Big by John Crowley
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Demien by Hermann Hesse
The S ... Have just started reading Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin which is about a culture which exists in the future long after our culture is gone. To me that is an intriguing premise. She writes from the standpoint of a historian/anthropolgist learning about this culture through ... ... ! Just forgot where I'd read the story.
I can definitely recommend Buffalo Gals, plus one of the best ones I think is Always Coming Home, which is just amazing.
This is a great site - I've only just come across it, and I'm enjoying the camaraderie of fellow booklovers. Good hunting, ... ... is my favorite poem! And so there are writings of Ray Bradbury that just sing through my veins, like Dandelion Wine. Always Coming Home gives me that same feel. McKillip often reaches it, too. Jane Lindskold achieves it in Child of a Rainless Year. And Guy Gavriel Kay in most of ... Got Always Coming Home by Ursula LeGuin at a used bookstore. Had never heard of it before & am intrigued w/the concept which i guess you'd call future archeology i.e. she invents a future culture & then does the archeology on them in this novel. She is somewhat Tolkienian in the amount of ... As Qwofacenosehead mentioned LeGuin is not Native, it remains as a shadow on my mind that Always Coming Home with all its benign intentions takes a very definitive assertive stance against nomadic lifestyle, which is quite essential to many aboriginal people. They addressed survival with ... Always Coming Home by UKL
And It Was Good by L'Engle
Amazing Grace by Kozol
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Alvin Journeyman by Card (had to hold my nose a bit while including that one)
Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin meets and exceeds my quest for works dealing with the aboriginal future, and with intercultural synthesis like Ward Churchill seemed to anticipate. It raises the question if people will argue with details and differences of taste - but a novelist ... ... are so few writers looking at such an obvious possible future.
Also didn't see anybody mention Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home I read that a while back and decided I needed to read it again. Very imaginative and far enough in the future that the references to the past are quite ... I loved Always Coming Home, chamekke! I haven't heard the recording, though. When I first looked at ACH, I thought it might be a bit dry, but it really was fascinating. It's one of those books where I find myself thinking about different ideas all the time, just out of nowhere. I checked it ... ... with giant alien turtles.)
Also, I don't suppose that anyone else here loved Le Guin's anthropology-of-the-future work Always Coming Home? Or enjoyed the related recording "The Music and Poetry of the Kesh"? At the time I thought they were both wonderful, although I have to admit it's been ... ... here.
Samuel Delany, Dhalgren
Gwyneth Jones, White Queen, Divine Endurance, and other titles
Ursula K. LeGuin, Always Coming Home
James Morrow, Towing Jehovah, City of Truth
China Mieville, Perdido Street Station (fantasy)
Jeff VanderMeer, Veniss Underground, Shriek! (al ... ... idea that The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed are her masterpieces, followed by the Earthsea books. I admire Always Coming Home a lot--it's a great mix of different types of "documents"--but I can't say I enjoyed it as much as others.
I tend to see LHoD somewhat differently ... Hmm, I must add Always Coming Homeas contender for masterpiece. It incorporates the major thematic perspectives she has explored while 'grounding' it on this world.
Otherwise, I agree with Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed
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