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Re:Ursula Le Guin Books by minnca on Saturday May 08, 2021 @12:14PM (#27088426)
I'm a big Le Guin fan and I consider her books to be sort of like "anthropological science fiction," as in they're focused on the societies and people of science fictional societies and less so on the science behind those societies.
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Re:Ursula Le Guin Books by 8fGTBjZxBcHq on Saturday May 08, 2021 @12:33PM (#27088603)
Yeah that's a big part of her thing right. She was raised by anthropologists I think? It's very present in a lot of her books and Always Coming Home is like 1/3 straight fictional ethnography.
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Re:Ursula Le Guin Books by vidarh on Saturday May 08, 2021 @12:51PM (#27088777)
Both her parents were anthropologists. This is her father [1], and this was her mother [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._L._Kroeber

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_Kroeber

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