Christopher LovegroveJan 26, 2024
#LoveHain wrap-up: an overview of a year-long reading of #UrsulaKLeGuin's Hainish stories from the 1960s to 2000.
https://wp.me/p2oNj1-7IS
#LoveHain wrap-up

NASA image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 1672 from Hubble At the urging of a few bloggers (particularly Lory and Hilary – thank you!) I was prevailed upon to initiate all through 2023 #LoveHain, a year-long…

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Lory Widmer HessJan 14, 2024

A Human Universe: Wrapup of the #LoveHain project, a year of reading Ursula K. Le Guin's Haininsh novels and stories. @bookstodon

#ScienceFiction #Classic #Time #Stories

https://enterenchanted.com/lovehain-a-human-universe/

#LoveHain: A Human Universe

Even though I own the Library of America edition of the Hainish novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, I’d not read most of the contents, or had extremely hazy recollections. So when Chris …

Entering the Enchanted Castle
Christopher LovegroveDec 29, 2023

"The fiery arc of human emotion": speculative stories that riff on what it means to be human in the final collection reviewed for #LoveHain, 'The Birthday of the World' by #ursulakleguin.

https://wp.me/s2oNj1-bday

The fiery arc: #LoveHain

© C A Lovegrove The Birthday of the World by Ursula K Le Guin. Orion Publishing Group, 2004 (2002). “Create difference—establish strangeness—then let the fiery arc of human emotion leap and c…

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Christopher LovegroveNov 24, 2023

My review of 'Four Ways to Forgiveness' (1995) by @UrsulaKLeGuin, novellas set in her #Hainish universe, for #LoveHain #SciFiMonth and #NovNov

https://wp.me/s2oNj1-4ways

All knowledge is local: #Love Hain

Nebula in the Orion constellation Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K Le Guin. Vista, 1997 (1995). “All knowledge is local, all truth is partial,” Havzhiva said. “No truth can ma…

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Christopher LovegroveOct 27, 2023
#LoveHain: my revised review of #ursulakleguin's short story collection A Fisherman of the Inland Sea.
https://wp.me/p2oNj1-mk
Tales within tales: #LoveHain

Enhanced-colour view of Mercury from images taken by the Messenger spacecraft (NASA photo) A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Stories by Ursula K Le Guin.Harper Perennial, 2005 (1994). Ursula Le Guin i…

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Christopher LovegroveSep 29, 2023
Quantity *and* quality in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975) by @UrsulaKLeGuin, read for #LoveHain.
https://wp.me/s2oNj1-wind
Quantity *and* quality: #LoveHain

A compendium edition of two short story collections by Ursula Le Guin The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975) by Ursula K Le Guin, in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters & The Compass Rose, Gollancz SF …

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Christopher LovegroveAug 4, 2023

Review of #UrsulaKLeGuin's The Eye of the Heron, for #LoveHain (though not officially part of her #HainishCycle.
#UKLGsf #TBRyear10 #10BooksOfSummer

https://wp.me/p2oNj1-7iK

A boundless self: #LoveHain

Giambattista Piranesi, Carcere XIV (‘The Gothic Arch’) The Eye of the Heron by Ursula K Le Guin. Starscape Books / Tom Doherty Associates, 2003 (1978). ‘Lev felt the strength of h…

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Christopher LovegroveJul 7, 2023
Review of @ursulaleguin's superb #Hainish novel The Dispossessed, the latest #UKLGsf read for #LoveHain.
https://wp.me/s2oNj1-urras
Unbuilding walls: #LoveHain

Mercury in true colour, photographed by Messenger in 2008. The Dispossessed. An ambiguous utopia by Ursula Le Guin. SF Masterworks, Gollancz, 1999 (1974). “To be whole is to be part; true voy…

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Christopher LovegroveJul 4, 2023
Mallika Ramachandran's fine review of #UrsulaKLeGuin's magisterial novel The Dispossessed for #LoveHain. #UKLGsf
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Book Review: The Dispossessed (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin #LoveHain

A work of science fiction, which, like most such others, uses the device of alternative times, worlds and settings essentially to critique human failings, the state of society, The Dispossessed (19…

Literary Potpourri
Christopher LovegroveJun 30, 2023
A discussion post for #UrsulaKLeGuin's magnificent 1974 novel #TheDispossessed as part of a #LoveHain #UKLGsf readalong. https://wp.me/s2oNj1-hain6
#Love Hain: The Dispossessed

The far side of the moon (NASA photo) It’s the last Friday of the month and time for another discussion post in our readalong of Ursula Le Guin’s Hainish novels in my wittily entitled #…

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