spectru
1/24/2017
The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin is a collection of eight stories and two short essays, afterwords. Six of the stories are from the Hainish cycle. In most collections there is variability. Some stories are better than others. And I guess that's true of this one as well, but I'd be hard pressed to say which one isn't as good as another. They're all good, or very good, or even better. Of the first seven six involve sexuality, and the other one war. The final story, a novelette or novella really, is the story of a generation ship. Outstanding.
These aren't adventure stories. They are about the cultures in which they occur--the cultures from Le Guin's mind, the thing she is so good at.
Ursula K Le Guin is as good a science fiction author that ever there was. She is as good as any author regardless of genre.