The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
Written by Ursula K. Le Guin
Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan and Jefferson Mays
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Ursula K. Le Guin
URSULA K. LE GUIN (1929-2018) was the celebrated and beloved author of numerous groundbreaking works, such as The Left Hand of Darkness, A Wizard of Earthsea, and The Dispossessed. The breadth and imagination of her work earned her six Nebulas, nine Hugos, and SFWA’s Grand Master, along with the PEN/Malamud and many other awards. In 2014 she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America.
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Reviews for The Found and the Lost
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Deeply moving, life changing. Worth coming back to more than once.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5First time reading Le Guin. I will use each novella to come up with stars for the book rating:Vaster than Empires and More Slow 4.0Buffalo Gals 3.0Hernes 3.0Seggri 3.0Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea 2.5Forgiveness Day 4.0A Man of the People 3.5Woman's Liberation 3.5Old Music and the Slave Women 4.0The Finder 4.0Oh High Marsh 4.0Dragonfly 4.0Paradises Lost 4.0Glad to have read a book(s) by here, have seen the name for years, but never read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5For many years, I avoided Ursula LeGuin, on the mistaken assumption that she was essentially a fantasy author, by virtue of her Wizard of Earthsea novels. It was not until later that I discovered her science fiction work and grew to enjoy it immensely. But LeGuin is not your prototypical science fiction (or it turns out, fantasy) author. She does not write space opera, but instead focuses on character development and human (or alien) interaction. You could label her work anthropological or sociological science fiction, with the fact that aliens, or space travel, or wizards are involved, becoming almost secondary.This collection of thirteen novellas (very close to short stories) is a perfect example of her writing. There may have been a couple of duds (most particularly Hernes and to a lesser degree Buffalo Gals), but by and large there is good stuff here. Three of the stories involve elements of her Hainish science fiction novels, featuring the planet Weres, where slavery is practiced. In this set of three stories, the reader is taken through a planetary and societal evolution in which slaves are first freed, only to see the women become cultural slaves. Again, only nominally science fiction, to the extent that we are dealing with an alien species in a different time and galaxy. Three other stories are set in the author’s Earthsea world, and while I am not a big fan of fantasy, like her science fiction, this fantasy is not heavy handed with extreme magic and fire breathing dragons. There is magic and there are dragons, but they are very subtly exercised or only mentioned in passing. The story is in the characters and their interaction.The final story, Paradise Lost, is the best in my opinion. Perhaps the most “science fiction” of the lot, it is set on a multi-generational, multi-ethnic starship as it approaches its destination. The story is outstanding as the author explores the various tensions and societal developments that can emerge in an isolated population, five generations removed from any knowledge or empathy for the civilization that launched their voyage; an excellent ending to a very nice collection.