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Originally Posted by ATDrake
My personal favourite LeGuin is Always Coming Home, which is kind of a multimedia reconstruction of an anthropological survey of a post-apocalyptic future California society...
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Her parents were the well known anthropologists Alfred and Theodora Kroeber who wrote
Ishi, Last of His Tribe about the last Yahi Indian.
There was a public TV adaptation of The Lathe of Heaven around 1980. It was really good despite bad special effects, but avoid at all costs the more recent cable TV version with James Caan. It completely misses the point of the whole story. In fact it's moral seems to be the exact opposite of LeGuin's intent.