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Originally Posted by pilotbob
The next Nebula/Hugo joint winner for me would be _Rendezvous With Rama_ not in the Kindle store, the year after that _The Disposed_ is in the kindle store.. so maybe that.
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I believe you mean Ursula K. LeGuin's _The Dispossesed_. It's a novel in her "Hainish" series, concerning a character who invents the Ansible - a method of instantaneous communication over interstellar distances. The device is used in other novels in the sequence. (The interstellar civilization of the Ekumen does not possess FTL travel, so it takes a bit to get from place to place. Being at least able to talk to each other in real time is a major step forward.)
_The Dispossessed_ won the Hugo in 1975, as well. It's a worthy work, but I found it less satisfying than some of LeGuin's other books. The authorial strings are a little
too evident in a few places, because she's more interested in making a point that telling a story.
If you
haven't read LeGuin's _The Left Hand of Darkness_ (also in the Hainish cycle),
do. It's simply brilliant.
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Any recos? What are all the cool kids on the forum reading recently?
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At the moment, Northrop Frye's _Anatomy of Criticism_ in trade paper, and a re-read of David Weber';s _Mission of Honor_ in ebook.
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Dennis