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Rocannon's World
by Ursula K. Le Guin
A 130 page book! Back in the day (1966) this was much more of a thing than today, or something. I think it was initially published as half of one of those flipbook deals - you know, where you finish the first book and then flip it over upside down and read from the other side? Yes, there's a technical term for that (hence my wiki link).
My copy was a single - exactly matching the image there - not that you care. But I'm kind of an old book geek (among other geekeries), so I CARE. Love the smell of 60s & 70s pulpy paperbacks.
This was one of LeGuin's first books - and it shows. It's not bad in any sense, but I can definitely see how she started with something like this and refined her craft. Still, there's something to be said for cramming an entire epic journey style story into 130 pages. So much that would have been sooo decompressed in a current work. But man was it nice to know that say a kidnapping scene (one of my pet peeves, which may or may not have happened in this book) isn't going to last 40 fucking pages - instead it's more like 3.
I don't have much to say about this... it was simple and fun and threw out some interesting ideas and then BAM done.
THREE STARS
Because it's simple and fun and a nice example of the early genre, especially the SF/F overlap, but nothing awesome.
My copy was a single - exactly matching the image there - not that you care. But I'm kind of an old book geek (among other geekeries), so I CARE. Love the smell of 60s & 70s pulpy paperbacks.
This was one of LeGuin's first books - and it shows. It's not bad in any sense, but I can definitely see how she started with something like this and refined her craft. Still, there's something to be said for cramming an entire epic journey style story into 130 pages. So much that would have been sooo decompressed in a current work. But man was it nice to know that say a kidnapping scene (one of my pet peeves, which may or may not have happened in this book) isn't going to last 40 fucking pages - instead it's more like 3.
I don't have much to say about this... it was simple and fun and threw out some interesting ideas and then BAM done.
THREE STARS
Because it's simple and fun and a nice example of the early genre, especially the SF/F overlap, but nothing awesome.