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It’s not the same.Īs always, join the conversation in the comments section below, on SSMT Facebook or on Twitter to the Short Story Magic Tricks Monthly Newsletter to get the latest short story news, contests and fun. Besides, they had grown up in the principle of freedom of dress and sex and all the rest, and she hadn’t. She didn’t want to spoil some young man’s breakfast with the sight of her. The young people went about the halls of the House in becoming immodesty, but she was too old for that. But the heart of the story is an aging woman, reflecting on her life, her decisions, and her impact.Īnd that’s quite a trick on Le Guin’s part. Yes, it’s a story set in a science fiction world. Which really is the point of my magic trick entry here. It’s to the story’s credit that there is plenty of recognizably human concerns here to latch onto.
Generally speaking, I just don’t really enjoy that kind of thing, so it was easy for me to ignore. I didn’t really understand the political intrigue or the references to different races and civilizations. Looking back, I can definitely see where a lot of it was world-building. I think that speaks highly of the story’s quality. It’s a big science-fiction world-building thing, so it’s interesting that I read this entire story unaware of any continuation beyond the text here. So evidently this story is the beginning of Le Guin’s novel The Dispossessed. Telling a very specific – and larger – science fiction story built around the very human concern of a woman aging and looking for meaning through her life’s work The Day Before The Revolution by Ursula K.
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