Rocannon's World

Ursula K. Le Guin

3 of 5 Stars

Le Guin's first novel is a serviceable quest story that maps fantasy tropes to a science-fiction setting. It's engaging enough, but I'd only recommend it to someone who's already read The Left Hand of Darkness or The Dispossessed. You can see the beginnings of a lot of the themes she explores more thoroughly in later works: Colonial exploitation, proxy wars, breaking racial stereotypes, interactions between cultures.

Fun fact: Le Guin invented the word ansible for this book.

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— Kelson Vibber, 2023-08-01

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