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Old 09-02-2014, 05:58 PM   #19
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I really liked the book. At first I was wary of a perfect utopia but it was quite nuanced with problems in each society. I don't feel that Anarres is anywhere near realistic and I could easily see such a scenario devolving quickly, but nevertheless I admit that it's the first communistic scenario I've ever imagined that somewhat enchanted me, and it made me feel that if I lived there I too might actually want to live like that.

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Even the subtitle, which I never noticed before, is "An Ambiguous Utopia."
I think I read somewhere that that wasn't originally a subtitle. After it started to be referred to as such, it was then decided to officially include it.

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...Samuel Delany's Triton which was written in response to Le Guin's book:
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2008/08/triton
This looks interesting!
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