


The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Boxed Set: The Found and the Lost; The Unreal and the Real [Le Guin, Ursula K.] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin Boxed Set: The Found and the Lost; The Unreal and the Real Review: Masterful character growth and worldbuilding - Just finished The Found and the Lost. Yet to crack The Unreal and the Real. In typical Ursula fashion, each of the 13 novellas in TFATL feature great characters and character growth, in a variety of well-crafted socio-political systems. The collection opens with Vaster than Empires and More Slow, a story about the crushing weight of empathy. There are a few fantastic Hainish/Ekumen stories-- A Man of the People describes the emotional journey of leaving home and coming back again-- as well as Earthsea stories like Dragonfly which I would love to see extended into a full novel. TFATL closes strong with Paradises Lost, a page-turning perversion of the phrase "the journey is the destination", in the context of a multi-generational seed ship. Paradises Lost is easily my favorite of the 13 novellas. Will update this review once I have finished The Unreal and The Real. Review: Simply wonderful - Simply wonderful apart from the greeny rant that is 'The word for world is forest'. Sadly Ursula Leguin is dead. I still remember my own mental images of these stories from my teens - 40 years ago!
| Best Sellers Rank | #4,363,850 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3,000 in Science Fiction Short Stories #3,047 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books) #20,379 in Short Stories (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (25) |
| Dimensions | 6 x 4.7 x 9 inches |
| Edition | Boxed Set |
| ISBN-10 | 1481489461 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1481489461 |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 1552 pages |
| Publication date | November 15, 2016 |
| Publisher | Gallery / Saga Press |
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Masterful character growth and worldbuilding
Just finished The Found and the Lost. Yet to crack The Unreal and the Real. In typical Ursula fashion, each of the 13 novellas in TFATL feature great characters and character growth, in a variety of well-crafted socio-political systems. The collection opens with Vaster than Empires and More Slow, a story about the crushing weight of empathy. There are a few fantastic Hainish/Ekumen stories-- A Man of the People describes the emotional journey of leaving home and coming back again-- as well as Earthsea stories like Dragonfly which I would love to see extended into a full novel. TFATL closes strong with Paradises Lost, a page-turning perversion of the phrase "the journey is the destination", in the context of a multi-generational seed ship. Paradises Lost is easily my favorite of the 13 novellas. Will update this review once I have finished The Unreal and The Real.
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Simply wonderful
Simply wonderful apart from the greeny rant that is 'The word for world is forest'. Sadly Ursula Leguin is dead. I still remember my own mental images of these stories from my teens - 40 years ago!
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Etant donné le nombre de nouvelles sélectionnées dans ce coffret, il est normal de ne pas les apprécier toutes au même niveau. Le Guin prouve néanmoins qu'elle est vraiment une très bonne écrivaine, très attachée à questionner le mode de vie de l'humanité au travers d'histoires tantôt contemporaines tantôt futuristes ou fantaisistes. J'ai bien apprécié lire les deux volumes présents dans ce coffret bien que certaines histoires ne m'ont pas beaucoup séduites mais le parcours d'un écrivain est rarement un sans-faute et il est intéressant d'avoir aussi une vision globale de son travail pour mieux le comprendre. A noter également, de mémoire, que deux histoires sont publiées deux fois, une fois dans un volume et une fois dans l'autre. Dommage.
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