Ursula Le Guin has died

Re:Ursula Le Guin has died by wz1000 on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @04:38AM (#16221490)

> they get mistreated by the system as often as they get lifted up by it. In the end she makes the explicit point that this is just one possible way of organizing human societies among a nearly infinite set of possibilities

Well, the book is subtitled "An Ambiguous Utopia"

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Re:Ursula Le Guin has died by vidarh on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @06:20AM (#16221874)

Which is fitting, given that Thomas More's original Utopia (as in the novel of that name) was also very much ambiguous (e.g. a lot of the features of More's utopia were things very much at odds with his rather pious catholic personal views).

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Re:Ursula Le Guin has died by pavlov on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @05:19AM (#16221644)

Interesting — I don’t think my copy had that.

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Re:Ursula Le Guin has died by auxbuss on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @03:24PM (#16225980)

I have the Avon paperback from 1975 and on the cover it says: The magnificent epic of an ambiguous utopia – Winner of the Nebula Award!

I don't believe this phrase was a subtitle so much as part of the cover blurb. It's not mentioned again.

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Re:Ursula Le Guin has died by jrochkind1 on Thursday January 25, 2018 @08:40AM (#16230657)

Wikipedia says 'When first published, the book included the tagline: "The magnificent epic of an ambiguous utopia!" which was shortened by fans to "An ambiguous utopia" and adopted as a subtitle in certain editions', with footnotes that I haven't bothered to follow.

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