Bonnie’s Reviews > The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin > Status Update

Man of the People (c)1994 through p. 358
Liked it. I like how sci-fi gives her the freedom to design multiple examples of cultures and societal rules, in turn allowing the reader to be thoughtful about our own patterns, gender roles and “local knowledge.” Cultures of tradition, cultures of knowledge, cultures of adaptation under oppression, and the flow of all of them.

Fisherman of Inland Sea…liked it, though would’ve been better back in the ‘90’s when it was written vs. now when we’re saturated with time travel stories. The culture of the clans of moieties made me think of the culture of the Tlingit living in Juneau, Alaska. A nice story about a life of intellectual stimulation and career achievement vs. a quieter rural family life through the eyes of a male character.

Matter of Seggri 4st On Seggri, W=power, intellectual and worklife; M=privilege/restriction playthings for sport & procreation. Revealed over centuries from visiting Earthling crew logs, S’n woman memoir, sample S’n fiction, and S’n male memoir. Genedered cultures social construct w/absurd conventions to detriment of both. Transition from stable if underperforming society hard on pioneers challenging status quo

Hernes - wrote review of this realistic literary fiction of 4 generations of Oregon white women in a separate review where this novella has been published as stand-alone by a Pacific Northwestern publishing house.

A girl Myra falls out of the sky into the desert southwest with its trickster coyote and the chickadee. There are only two kinds of people.” “Humans and animals?” “No. The kind of people who say, ‘There are two kinds of people’ and the kind of people who don’t”.

Vaster than Empires and More Slow: spaceship voyage of neurotic astronauts with an empath who connects with a planet of intelligent forest experiencing fear and facing it.