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Old 11-25-2014, 09:56 PM   #102
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Back to those damn lists: I think if one was to draw a list of writers who could dramatize political themes in fiction effectively, then - on the basis of three or four of her works - Le Guin would have to come near the top.

I'd also include Tolstoy and Victor Serge in that list.

It is a rare gift, and in her best works, Le Guin demonstrated it.
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Ayn Rand?
George Orwell?
Heinlein (when he isn't being a perv)?
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