![]() There are computers and contraceptives, tanks and antibiotics, but this is a world governed by human customs, not by technological "progress." The two societies LeGuin describes are both tribal, though she prevents us from thinking of either as "primitive." As in Shevek's role as mediator between the planets Urres and Anarres in The Dispossessed, the two cultures in conflict here are observed by a narrator not wholly part of either world. The novel is set in northern California in some far distant future that has been shaped by earthquakes and social upheaval. ![]() It lacks, however, the flawless integration of storyline and interspersed folk-material that characterized 1969's The Left Hand of Darkness. Far less preachy than 1974's The Dispossessed, this is equally intelligent and ambitious. ![]() LeGuin here focuses her inimitable world-building skills on two conflicting societies of the future-implying, of course, their relevance to the present. ![]()
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