how did she depict everlasting winter and glacial landscapes so well?
She must have read about artic/antarctic expeditions. Amundsen, Scott, Shackleton and such.
>>24824250she was actually on board with Ernest Shackleton's expeditions. many people don't know this.
>>24824313Shackleton died in 1922Le Guin was born in 1929ur full of shit
>>24824250chatgpt help
>>24824250I wish there was a saga of this. The winter planet populated by hermaphrodites is fascinating
How did she make monarchy so boring?
>>24825044Monarchism is boring. (besides evil) Disney needs musical numbers to jazz them up.
Is she better than Iain Banks? On my I think third book of The Culture and not sure the series is for me
>>24825244What don't you like about it?
>>24825244she's an entirely different writer.ursula's style of science fiction is more akin to fantasy, and she never focuses on the technology aspect of it
>>24826382Left Hand of Darkness has pretty cool tech, both on the earthling side (laptop devices with satellital connection) and the natives (electric self driving cars, mecha land barges, energy-efficient portable stove, hormonal drugs)
>>24824250Any example? Never read it
>>24826382Are you incapable of making a judgement? I know she is a fucking different writer, it doesn't take a genius to figure that out
>>24825557It's kind of a shallow libtard Mary-Sue utopia civilization, I like it less than The Expanse, Three Body Trilogy, Blood Music, the technology level is a bit too high for my tastes yet at the same time he doesn't really focus on it or explain the tech well, if Ursula Guin is more fantasy than SF I think it would probably be similar to his writing in that respect as it does feel like fantasy at times. It could be she writes characters betterThe Culture is too damn big and impersonal, so I just don't give a fuck about any of the particular characters, and The Culture just roflstomps everybody in their way with minimal effort as a show of how superior the libtard hedonist ideology isI don't feel particularly excited to work my way through the novels (and I listen to these as audiobooks while walking/driving, and nothing has compelled me to rewind and listen to a section again), if there was something better I'd drop them
>>24826778In the first two books it is mentioned either in the preface or epilogue that all the events basically happened in an irrelevant backwater and in the grand scheme of things have done nothing to impede The Culture's progress one way or another
I'm not the best to ask since I've only read half of Consider Phlebas, but yes I think she is a better writer by what I have to compare them with, and that is by a long shot.Keyword here is writer, I'm sure the Culture series has a more complicated plot, but Ursula really delves into some trippy stuff about identity and subverts your expectations.If you want to read I'd start with Rocannon's World, view it as a fantasy novel because it really is.Then Planet of Exile. Did not like this one, but skim read it since it does show her progression, with more focus on characters, but by far her worst novel in my opinion.City of Illusion, where everything finally clicked perfectly.It's a quest style novel, a search of identity that entirely deconstructs the premise towards the end. Can't say more without spoiling the experience.After that you go through the classics. The left Hand of Darkness -> Lathe of Heaven -> The World for Word is Forest -> The DispossesedWhat always stands out for me is her way of describing nature. I'm genuinely impressed by how she can write pages on end just travelling through different landscapes and keep me reading.
this >>24826808was for this >>24826753
>>24826778Do you even know what shallow means?>libtardOh, you don't even know what this means either. Holy shit, no wonder you're having a hard time. The Culture books are about the culture. However the characters develop enough in each book, and better than an Asimov or Clarke "character" ever did.Yes, Le Guin is on the social science fiction side as well. Deals with people in exotic settings. You want some technology explanations that go on a few pages instead? No?The ideology to not be dicks to one another bothers you? The books eventually asks if this is even a healthy lifestyle, and shit man. Why isn't paradise appealing? There are characters who just jump out of their hippie buses and go live in some dystopian hellhole. The canvas is probably too big for you or something.
>>24826850It’s an entire galactic civilization of arrogant and out of touch libtards suffering from affluenza
>>24826931No, it's a hugely diverse group of humans that are more advanced than the Star Trek Enterprise TNG and they come up with a million different ways to live. Your perception of arrogance is a psychological self-tell. They invented tech to the point that anarchism was inevitable. Does that bother you? Then I guess you'd side with Gobuchul (you've read Consider Phlebas?) He hates them so much he sides with religious bugs because they offer war and authoritarianism. But be assured, there are people in the Culture who would see it from his and you POV and genuinely sympathize and question their own culture and how it's making you feel. Hey, do what you want. I do love Le Guin though. She does have better prose and varied stories as you can get from their synopses.
