American Nightmares: The Near-Future Dystopia as Political Warning, from Bradbury to Butler to the Present
https://boldly.blue/near-future-dystopia-political-science-fiction-guide/
A guide to the American political dystopia. Enter at your own risk.

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#dystopianfiction

Acabar un dia esgotador llegint Ursula K. Le Guin em dona una mica de pau. No només pel fet del viatge que suposa endinsar-se en anarquismes còsmics, el handdara, o tot lo místic que envolta les formes de vida narrades.

També pel fet que aquestes visions, aquests somnis, queden enregistrats en una literatura plena de bellesa, d'afirmació, d'imaginació. Ella, entre altris, va teixir aquests desitjos d'un afora en els seus llibres; i totis som part d'aquesta idea, que mantenim amb passió i cuidem.

És quelcom que em passa sempre qur llegeixo o conec sobre anarquistes del passat: ja no hi són, però el seu amor i lluita per horitzons lliures encara deixa llavors per aquesta bella idea que recollim les noves generacions.

#UrsulaLeGuin #TheLeftHandOfDarkness #anarchism

He començat "La mà esquerra de la foscor" de Ursula K. Le Guin i, més enllà de que l'acabaré en dos dies , feia temps que no m'endinsava de tal manera en un llibre, fins al punt de perdre la noció de les hores.

És la millor.

#UrsulaLeGuin #literatura

RE: https://aus.social/@fullfathomfive/116241846289279739

I don't use word processors much (or ever, frankly) so grammar-checking is not something I'd normally encounter. Spelling checkers, on the other hand, seem to lurk everywhere, and usually you have to dig deep to find an opt-out. I've been to school where I was taught to spell. I have friends and relatives who genuinely need help with spelling, but why would I have them enabled by default?

#UrsulaLeGuin #fuckAI

"As for the stuff in your computer that pretends to correct your punctuation or grammar, disable it. These programs are on a pitifully low level of competence; they’ll chop your sentences short and stupidify your writing. Competence is up to you."

— Ursula Le Guin, Steering the Craft

#UrsulaLeGuin #fuckAI

“Read it now” – Ursula K. Le Guin

Weaving folklore, fairy tale & Norse myth into a shimmering, witty & slyly subversive tapestry, Naomi Mitchison’s TRAVEL LIGHT – a rediscovered gem of classic fantasy writing – has just been republished in the UK by Virago

@bookstodon

https://store.virago.co.uk/products/travel-light

#Scottish #literature #fantasy #kidlit #20thcentury #womenswriting #ursulaLeGuin #NaomiMitchison #folklore #mythology

The Word for World Is Forest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPUMrjwJgGs

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I finished reading The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin. I had watched both movie adaptations a little while ago. The premise is that a man named George Orr has dreams that alter reality. He is afraid of this power, so he abuses drugs to try to stop the dreams. He gets into trouble with the government after this, so he is assigned a therapist, Dr Haber. But when Haber realizes what George can do, he starts hypnotizing George so he can manipulate his dreams and reality. He dreams himself into a famous and powerful researcher. But the dreams usually go wrong in some way. Haber tells George to dream of peace on Earth; this leads to a war with aliens over the Moon instead. He tells George to dream away the overpopulation that is leading to mass starvation, so a plague comes and kills billions of people... and so on.

It is a short book with interesting if confusing themes of Daoism and antipsychiatry, but I take issue with the way minorities are written, especially George's love interest, Heather. She is a biracial (Black and white) woman who dislikes having brown skin. When Haber tells George to dream away racism, everyone becomes gray. Gray Heather is "gentler." In the end, Heather becomes brown again and her personality becomes "fiercer" and "difficult" as a result. There were other odd things about her character but suffice to say, I don't like it.

#TheLatheOfHeaven #UrsulaKLeGuin #UrsulaLeGuin #books #reading #Daoism #Taoism #psychiatry #antipsychiatry