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Book Review of The Telling

The Telling
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In an unspecified future where humankind travels between inhabited planets, a young woman from Earth is sent to learn what she can about the vanished and repressed history of a culture contaminated and utterly remade in the image of The Corporation.

Le Guin's strength is not, and never has been, in characterizaion, but in imagining other ways of thinking and being. This is a bit opaque at times, and not a particularly fast read, but it does include some thought-provoking notions.