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technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
it's interesting that as Le Guin's last Ekumen novel, this one dealt most directly with Earth; the only one to name more than indirect references to any Earth culture. it also dealt more directly than any other with religion and capitalism, but some of the capitalism critique felt a bit heavy-handed. the parallels to China and the cultural revolution (ideograms, old writing systems replaced) were a little weird too.
but I enjoyed it; a fun read even if not at the level of The Dispossessed.