[Rec] "Sisterhood" -- The Dispossessed
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edenfallingI kept forgetting to post about this, which is a shame because it's a GREAT story, but better late than never. Anyway, a rec! ...And, I suppose, something of a memorial for Le Guin. :(
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Sisterhood (17126 words) by Transposable_Element
Chapters: 7/?
Fandom: The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin, Hainish Cycle - Ursula K. Le Guin
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Pilun (The Dispossessed), Sadik (The Dispossessed)
Additional Tags: Sisters, Epistolary, Culture Shock, Utopia, Feminist Themes, POV Outsider
Summary: Pilun goes to Urras to study biology. Set 18 years after The Dispossessed.
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This is an absolutely wonderful story about a young woman attempting to navigate a foreign and painful culture, while simultaneously dealing with some family stress and reevaluating her own culture and world.transposable_element shows sides of Urras and A-Io that Shevek never saw (because he's male, because he was considered "high status," because he's a relatively self-contained personality and didn't ask or look) and draws a realistic and sympathetic portrait of Pilun coming of age and learning who she wants to be and what she wants to do in her worlds.
Go read it and tell the writer what you think!
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Sisterhood (17126 words) by Transposable_Element
Chapters: 7/?
Fandom: The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin, Hainish Cycle - Ursula K. Le Guin
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Pilun (The Dispossessed), Sadik (The Dispossessed)
Additional Tags: Sisters, Epistolary, Culture Shock, Utopia, Feminist Themes, POV Outsider
Summary: Pilun goes to Urras to study biology. Set 18 years after The Dispossessed.
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This is an absolutely wonderful story about a young woman attempting to navigate a foreign and painful culture, while simultaneously dealing with some family stress and reevaluating her own culture and world.
transposable_element shows sides of Urras and A-Io that Shevek never saw (because he's male, because he was considered "high status," because he's a relatively self-contained personality and didn't ask or look) and draws a realistic and sympathetic portrait of Pilun coming of age and learning who she wants to be and what she wants to do in her worlds.Go read it and tell the writer what you think!
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Date: 2018-01-27 02:01 am (UTC)I've been feeling sad all week about Ursula Le Guin. She was such a great writer, and a remarkable person. And she had a huge influence on my imagination and my writing (such as it is) from about age 11 on. I had a chance to meet her once and completely flubbed it because I was so star-struck I could barely speak.
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Date: 2018-01-27 03:48 am (UTC)The Tombs of Atuan is one of the first books I remember reading and not being quite the same person afterwards -- that happens sometimes, you know, with stories. The Dispossessed was another of Le Guin's works that pulled the same trick on me, as did various short stories and essays to a lesser degree. The world is poorer without her.