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I'm a big Le Guin fan and I consider her books to be sort of like "anthropological science fiction," as in they're focused on the societies and people of scienc
by minnca 5y ago
I'm a big Le Guin fan and I consider her books to be sort of like "anthropological science fiction," as in they're focused on the societies and people of science fictional societies and less so on the science behind those societies.
- 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y agoYeah that's a big part of her thing right. She was raised by anthropologists I think? It's very present in a lot of her books and Always Coming Home is like 1/3 straight fictional ethnography.
- vidarh 5y agoBoth her parents were anthropologists. This is her father [1], and this was her mother [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._L._Kroeber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._L._Kroeber [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_Kroeber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_Kroeber