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I think this book is at least 40 years old and doesn't show it at all. Yet another metaphor for man's inability to accept what is different without destroying everything and where ecology is only one of the possible interpretations.
Credo che questo libro abbia almeno una quarantina d'anni e non li dimostra affatto. Un'ennesima metafora dell'incapacitá dell'uomo di accettare il diverso senza distruggere tutto e dove l'ecologia é solo una delle interpretazioni possibili. ...more
Credo che questo libro abbia almeno una quarantina d'anni e non li dimostra affatto. Un'ennesima metafora dell'incapacitá dell'uomo di accettare il diverso senza distruggere tutto e dove l'ecologia é solo una delle interpretazioni possibili. ...more
"THEIR TRIBAL DREAMS HAD BECOME AN ALIEN NIGHTMARE
"The planet Athshe was a paradise whose people were blessed with a mystical awareness of existence. Then the conquerors arrived and began to rape, enslave and kill humans without a flicker of humanity. The Athseheans were unskilled in the ways of war, and without weapons. But the gentle tribesmen possessed strange powers over their dreams. And the alien conquerors had taught them how to hate. . ."
~~back cover
Of course I think anything Ursula Le G ...more
"The planet Athshe was a paradise whose people were blessed with a mystical awareness of existence. Then the conquerors arrived and began to rape, enslave and kill humans without a flicker of humanity. The Athseheans were unskilled in the ways of war, and without weapons. But the gentle tribesmen possessed strange powers over their dreams. And the alien conquerors had taught them how to hate. . ."
~~back cover
Of course I think anything Ursula Le G ...more
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I love Ursula Le Guin's imagination and the way she constructs alien worlds and alien societies. Great read as usual.
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A really good book about the way humans mess up the unspoiled, and the retribution.
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