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Luca

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I love all literary genres, with a preference for quality fiction, sci-fi and history. I love technology, and I am old enough to remember how rosy the future looked when the Internet started becoming widespread, and the end of the cold war was at hand. I hope to be able to help new generations to go back to having a rosier look at the future, as I had the privilege of having when I was their age.

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Completato! Luca ha letto 37 di 30 libri.

ha recensito The Left Hand of Darkness di Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle, #4)

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback, 2018, Orion Publishing Co)

Another masterful chapter on Humanity

This is the second book I’ve read of Le Guin’s. I already see a pattern emerge: she is a master in embedding the description of the defining traits of humanity in thought experiments. The experiment this time is about an alien race without a pre-defined gender, and still on its road to finding out what “country”, “patriotism” and “humanity” mean in practice. Along these lines, Le Guin shows us everything that humanity is: the good, the bad and the ugly. Highly recommended: the value of this book goes well beyond science fiction.