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Wild Girls
A Literary Fiction Novel by Ursula K Le Guin
Subgenres:
- Speculative Fiction,
- Feminist Fiction,
- Dystopian
This book is for you if you're into...
- Sword and silk societies with dirt children fighting for justice
- Scathing essays that challenge capitalism and publishing norms
- Bonus interviews revealing hidden sides of iconic SF authors
Ursula K. Le Guin is the one modern science fiction author who truly needs no introduction.
In the half century since The Left Hand of Darkness, her works have changed not only the face but the tone and the agenda of SF, introducing themes of gender, race, socialism, and anarchism, all the while thrilling readers with trips to strange (and strangely familiar) new worlds.
Her Nebula winner The Wild Girls, newly revised and presented here in book form for the first time, tells of two captive "dirt children" in a society of sword and silk, whose determination to enter "that possible even when unattainable space in which there is room for justice" leads to a violent and loving end.
Plus: Le Guin's scandalous and scorching Harper's essay, "Staying Awake While We Read," (also collected here for the first time) which demolishes the pretensions of corporate publishing and the basic assumptions of capitalism as well.
And of course our Outspoken Interview, which promises to reveal the hidden dimensions of America's best-known SF author.
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