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The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins · published 2008 · read 2012-09-01

Preferable when compared to Twilight. Can hardly be blamed for starting the whole YA dystopia trend, but I'm blaming it nevertheless.

Mockingjay

by Suzanne Collins · published 2010 · read 2013-03-01

Only read this book to complete the trilogy.

The secret life of robots

by Suzanne Palmer · published 2017 · read 2018-08-09

This is for us robot lovers: The Secret Life of Bots is an utterly charming novella by Suzanne Palmer. I can't really say much without spoiling parts of it, but the protagonist is lovely without being humanised, the personal dynamics are

Bots of the Lost Ark

by Suzanne Palmer · published 2021 · read 2022-08-07

Didn't convince as much as the original, but it was a sweet follow-up. This book is part of the 2022 Backlog Incident.

Native Tongue

by Suzette Haden Elgin · published 1984 · read 2020-10-19

Interesting, but ultimately not satisfying. Imagine a Handmaid's Tale style dystopian future but with xenolinguistics. There's a subtle female language-based resistance, and the whole setup is neat, but it doesn't really go anywhere. Life g

Metal Like Blood in the Dark

by T. Kingfisher · published 2020 · read 2022-03-03

Brother, Sister and their inventor make a strange group. When their inventor is suddenly forced to leave without them, the giant, powerful beings are on their own – and are forced to learn things like morals, and lies. Beautifully written.

Clockwork Boys

by T. Kingfisher · published 2017 · read 2020-01-26

Excuse me, a ninja assassin and an anti-stereotype paladin? I'll have to read the second part right away. Both quippy and touching, manages to strike a balance between excitement and character growth (while admittedly favouring excitement a

A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

by T. Kingfisher · published 2020 · read 2022-05-07

Mona has bread magic, including a semi-sentient sourdough starter and animated gingerbread people. But when magical people start getting persecuted and her city is in danger of being invaded, she has to turn her abilities to the salvation o

The Dirty Streets of Heaven

by Tad Williams · published 2012 · read 2017-07-11

In the end it was horribly predictable, sometimes fun urban fantasy with angels and demons and stuff.

Gideon the Ninth

by Tamsyn Muir · published 2019 · read 2020-02-15

Gideon the Ninth is popular, but didn't work for me – the first third (or so) felt very muddled and I was wondering why everybody seemed to love this book so much. It got better, but the world it played in never felt quite solid to me, and

The Lifecycle of Software Objects

by Ted Chiang · published 2010 · read 2018-10-31

The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang is a charming (if depressing) story of virtual pets who are trained to be cute companions, but when the fad fades – after layoffs and knockoffs – it turns out you can train them up over the

Bears Discover Fire

by Terry Bisson · published 1990 · read 2022-12-01

Not sure what all the excitement is about. Somewhat strong atmosphere, yes, but no better or worse than the average tor.com story – a sign of progress and the times a-changing? This book is part of the [2022 Backlog Incident](/p/2022-bac

Wizard’s First Rule

by Terry Goodkind · published 1994 · read 2016-10-24

This book could have been classic fantasy. It has all the right ingredients: Richard, the Woman, the Wizard, the Quest, the Traitor, the Evil Antagonist. Boring? Yes. Schematic? Couldn't be more so. But still, a lot of Fantasy works like th

A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction

by Terry Pratchett · published 2012 · read 2017-02-02

Some mediocre-okayish stuff, but a few really, really great ones. In the end, Granny overshadowed everything as per usual, but the barbarian hero who went to meet his maker stands out, too.

Theatre of Cruelty

by Terry Pratchett · published 1993 · read 2016-06-08

This one is short and nice (well, no. Not nice, but if you know Punch and Judy shows, you'll enjoy it). Available online for free on lspace

Men at Arms

by Terry Pratchett · published 1993 · read 2005-01-01

Terry Pratchett's second Watch book, and this time it's not about dragons: It's about the Gonne, a weapon stolen from the Assassins Guild. We already have dwarves, trolls, werewolves and Nobby in the guard, and it's a great adventure. Not p

The Truth

by Terry Pratchett · published 2000 · read 2001-08-01

William de Worde brings journalism to the entirely unprepared Discworld. Journalists everywhere beware.

Mort

by Terry Pratchett · published 1987 · read 2004-04-01

Mort was really good for me at the time, but looking back, I'm less of a fan. Still a good book, of course, just a long way off the Discworld's best. Extremely good for being only number 4 in the series, of course!

The Shepherd’s Crown

by Terry Pratchett · published 2015 · read 2017-11-22

It's unpolished, and sometimes stumbles or takes some time where other Aching books were quick and smooth, but still – it's magnificent and we're so lucky to have it.

Raising Steam

by Terry Pratchett · published 2013 · read 2017-07-11

This … is not it. I wasn't into this Discworld arc to begin with, to be entirely fair – but even for that, this book felt off. The rhythm is changed. It's less ready to cut you open and make you like it. At the same time, it's not early Pra

The Color of Magic

by Terry Pratchett · published 1983 · read 2007-01-01

Only of interest because the Discworld series starts here – if you consider reading the Discworld books, please don't start here! Pratchett was not exactly bad, of course, but nowhere near his later brilliance.

Soul Music

by Terry Pratchett · published 1994 · read 2009-11-01

Pratchett would have laughed to hear (or so I like to imagine) that 14-year-old me actually learned all the rock'n'roll stereotypes from this book. It's a weird introduction to this part of pop culture, but it could be so much worse.

Night Watch

by Terry Pratchett · published 2002 · read 2005-02-01

Easily the best Watch book, and up among my favourite Pratchett books. Vimes goes back in time, now that he has cleaned up his act (somewhat), and meats Young Vimes. There's a lot about growing up, and a lot about growing old, and some thin

Snuff

by Terry Pratchett · published 2011 · read 2017-07-07

Yeah, Commander Vimes and little Sammy and another book (this one about Poo). Also, the countryside. Also, Goblins turn out not to be vermin. Surprise! It's run of the mill, but with Discworld books, that still means high quality fun.

Moving Pictures

by Terry Pratchett · published 1990 · read 2005-04-01

One of my first Discworld books, I read it before having seen any Holywood movies (and probably not more than ten movies in total), so I was mostly confused. Granted, it's not one if his better books, so there's that, but re-reading it ten

Hogfather

by Terry Pratchett · published 1996 · read 2010-03-01

Hogfather is not quite peak Pratchett, but it's getting there. And, of course, even so it is better than most genre fiction by a margin. Hogfather beats you over the head with uncomfortable truths, while also having you giggle at Death tryi

Witches Abroad

by Terry Pratchett · published 1991 · read 2006-01-01

By a wide margin the earliest Pratchett book that I can give five stars. It's still part of his silly phase, and it predates Night Watch by eleven years, but there's a hard core, flinty and unwavering and willing to punch you in the feeling

Carpe Jugulum

by Terry Pratchett · published 1998 · read 2003-08-01

Snotty vampires. Snotty vampires not at all concerned what the neighbours are thinking, no sir. Contains an excellent quote on the nature of sin. Good like all the witch books – but it was probably for the best that the Witches series ends

The Last Continent

by Terry Pratchett · published 1998 · read 2009-05-01

This is the last of the Rincewind books that I've read. There's technically The Last Hero and Unseen Academicals waiting for me but I couldn't be bothered. Though, surprisingly, I found this one more bearable than the others, if only by

Equal Rites

by Terry Pratchett · published 1987 · read 2014-05-13

Definitely one of the better early Discworld books, but still very uneven. Not one of my favourites, but I can't in all honesty dislike a book with Granny Weatherwax in it – and as her first book, it is special.

A Hat Full of Sky

by Terry Pratchett · published 2004 · read 2011-09-01

More Tiffany is good Tiffany. When it turned out that Tiffany was there to stay and not just a one-off, I was so incredibly happy.

Only You Can Save Mankind

by Terry Pratchett · published 1992 · read 2004-03-01

A computer game that turns out to be real – in 1992. Great fun. Has aged, of course, but the important bits still work.

Wintersmith

by Terry Pratchett · published 2006 · read 2010-03-01

Like all Tiffany book, this one lives in a special place in my heart. Tiffany is growing up, and she's doing so well. … generally. She's learning, though! And let me I note that this is the book that has an entire Steeleye Span album devote

The Light Fantastic

by Terry Pratchett · published 1986 · read 2006-12-01

One of the worst Discworld books out there, but we'll ignore it because it's part of the reason that we got the later brilliant books. Rincewind and Twoflower ineptly save the world, blah blah.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

by Terry Pratchett · published 1990 · read 2015-04-01

Good Omens is the result of a blessed (but not ineffably blessed) collaboration. And it produced a similarly blessed mini-series! Nothing's not to like here. The only thing that always surprises me when re-reading it is how rooted it is

Sourcery

by Terry Pratchett · published 1988 · read 2003-07-01

Yet another Rincewind book. The only good part is that it sets up a later book rather nicely. The Four Horsemen of the apocalypse are alright. It's not a book that I'd recommend while there are all the other Pratchett books available, thoug

Small Gods

by Terry Pratchett · published 1992 · read 2005-01-01

Small Gods is Sir Pterry's take on the Catholic church and hoo boy, is it ever a take. There are prophets and exquisitors and gods, and God, and long treks through deserts. It's very, very good.

Reaper Man

by Terry Pratchett · published 1991 · read 2003-10-01

Death is now a retired senior citizen. He puts his scythe to more traditional use, while the Discworld finds out how bad life is without Death. Hilarious, solidly in the phase where Discworld books are fun without being terribly philosophic

The Carpet People

by Terry Pratchett · published 1971 · read 2003-11-01

Young Terry's first book, if I recall correctly. It's very different and less polished, of course, but it shows imagination and humour already. I enjoyed reading it and I thought the setting was very clever and fun.

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

by Terry Pratchett · published 2001 · read 2017-07-06

Well, that was fun, but less fun than I've had with most other Pratchett books, I think? It's about average for him, at most, which still makes this a very good book. More YA-y in nature, and possibly him testing out narration modes that co

Eric

by Terry Pratchett · published 1990 · read 2005-09-01

A wannabe Faustus, time travel, regular travel, Troy and much more? This may be the only Rincewind book that I actually like.

Nation

by Terry Pratchett · published 2008 · read 2013-10-01

Nation is amazing. Non-Discworld, YA-ish story of a Victorian girl meeting a boy from an islander tribe – she strands, his tribe is wiped out by the same tidal wave. As you'd expect from Pratchett, he thoroughly does away with any notions o

Thud!

by Terry Pratchett · published 2005 · read 2009-04-01

Trolls versus dwarves, first in the city and then in Koom valley. Plus a new vampire in the Watch, so we get to see Vimes mostly refuse to grapple with prejudice again. It's not Night Watch, but not every Vimes book can be Night Watch.

Going Postal

by Terry Pratchett · published 2004 · read 2010-02-01

The post office story about innovation and all sorts of things was too on-the-nose allegorical for my tastes (though I liked Thud!, so I really shouldn't complain I suppose). As an ardent Miles Vorkosigan fan, I loved the momentum, but didn

Pyramids

by Terry Pratchett · published 1989 · read 2007-05-01

Pyramids was fun in many ways – not just the pyramids! The look inside the Assassins Guild was very intriguing. Though the thing I remember best is the long chain of ancestors, who can only communicate with the next one or two in line becau

Johnny and the Dead

by Terry Pratchett · published 1993 · read 2007-09-01

Johnny has all the luck: After his video game adventures, he now starts seeing dead people (and as a consequence will have to save the local cemetary).

The Wee Free Men

by Terry Pratchett · published 2003 · read 2010-07-01

This may well be the high point of the series, at least looking at it chronologically: Wee Free Men (introducing Tiffany) and Night Watch (hands-down the best Watch book) were released back-to-back, and mark a departure from jokes-first Pra

Lords and Ladies

by Terry Pratchett · published 1992 · read 2005-11-01

Magrat gets married, except there's a Shakespeare ex machina and suddenly we're all midsummernight dreaming. Granny Weatherwax has some serious Speech moments where she tells us ex cathedra what to believe, but it's all good as always.

Maskerade

by Terry Pratchett · published 1995 · read 2007-04-01

Phantom of the Opera, but Discworld and witches. I hated how Agnes is treated in descriptions. At the same time, we finally get to see Nanny shine. Still a book that I disliked as much as the Rincewind books.

I Shall Wear Midnight

by Terry Pratchett · published 2010 · read 2012-03-01

Tiffany is growing up, very much so. I didn't care much for half of that, and I thought the general plot wasn't the best, but the writing – oh! the writing. It's good enough to make me ignore all possible objections and just be happy that w

Guards! Guards!

by Terry Pratchett · published 1989 · read 2005-01-01

Guards! Guards! only barely misses the five-star cutoff. It has dragons, and one-in-a-million shots, and a big terrible city with small terrible people. What else do you want?

Dodger

by Terry Pratchett · published 2012 · read 2017-06-01

Uh boy! Pratchett goes to the time and place he is most nerdy about: Early Victorian London.

Monstrous Regiment

by Terry Pratchett · published 2003 · last read 2022-05-04

Monstrous Regiment is not one of the best Discworld books, I'd argue. It shows Pratchett's personal politics more than other books, and its final character arc is so cheesy it's downright embarassing. That said, it stands among my five-

Interesting Times

by Terry Pratchett · published 1994 · read 2007-12-01

Ugh, more Rincewind. I really would exchange all the Rincewind books for just one more Tiffany book.

Death and What Comes Next

by Terry Pratchett · published 2002 · read 2016-06-08

Really amusing. Hey, it's DEATH vs a philosopher, you know you'll like it. It's really short though, so be prepared for a sudden ending. It's also the last dedicated Death work, but since Death is always good as a recurring cast member in a

The World of Poo

by Terry Pratchett · published 2012 · read 2020-04-23

An adorable Discworld book, really. As Ankh-Morpork adventures go, definitely better than some of the very early ones. Though very different in tone, of course – it's about Vimes jr, after all.

Making Money

by Terry Pratchett · published 2007 · read 2008-09-01

As before, I didn't care about the protagonist, and not that much about the innovation commentary, either. I suspect the problem is same disinterest in economics that also makes me bounce of Charlie Stross's more economy-oriented sci-fi.

Thief of Time

by Terry Pratchett · published 2001 · read 2006-07-01

Mysterious monks who keep things running behind the scenes! Time shenanigans! And also foreshadowing of Pratchett following up more on his philosophical leanings. Not the best Discworld book but still lots of fun.

The Long Earth

by Terry Pratchett · published 2012 · read 2014-06-01

Parallel worlds are always fun, and I liked very much how the concept was set up. Normally in scifi you get a good concept like this, then an okay plot and cardboard characters. Sadly, in Long Earth everything except for the concept was mad

Jingo

by Terry Pratchett · published 1997 · read 2006-12-01

Vimes and Vetinary don't conquer the world, and that's enough of a story. Casually anti-racist, casually pacifist, in Pratchett's weirdly conservative way. Nearly halfway through the Discworld series but still more in the "producing lots of

The Fifth Elephant

by Terry Pratchett · published 1999 · read 2009-06-01

This is the only Terry Pratchett book that I've heard as an audio book (in German), and it didn't work for me at all. I missed half the stuff, all of the jokes and it didn't feel nearly as deep as it turned out to be in the end. An interest

Johnny and the Bomb

by Terry Pratchett · published 1996 · read 2010-08-01

Johnny, after fixing video games and dead people, now gets to travel back in time with his friends and experience the Blitz. To be honest, I found this less memorable but at least as fun as the other Johnny Maxwell books.

Feet of Clay

by Terry Pratchett · published 1996 · read 2008-05-01

Introducing and exploring golems, with all the usual free will stuff attached. Not bad, though I think I enjoyed the Watch banter most, and then the monarchy side plot, and only then the main plot.

Wyrd Sisters

by Terry Pratchett · published 1988 · read 2007-12-01

MacBeth, only Discworld. One of the better early Discworld books – King Verence I dies, the child is hidden etc etc.

Effi Briest

by Theodor Fontane · published 1894 · read 2010-01-01

Dramatic, sad, but also overdone and decidedly not something you should force on school children.

Der Schimmelreiter

by Theodor Storm · published 1888 · read 2006-02-01

How would you discuss the conflict between old superstitious beliefs ruling the country and scientific enlightenment doing its thing? A ghost story? Well, that's what Storm thought, too.

Aquis Submersus

by Theodor Storm · published 1876 · read 2006-09-01

Theodor Storm: good. Theodor Fontane: ehhhh. This is my qualified German literature opinion.

The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter

by Theodora Goss · published 2017 · read 2019-08-06

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss was an absolute delight. It takes place in Victorian London, and we see the daughters of Dr Jekyll, Mr Hyde, Dr Moreau, and other classics of Victorian literature trying to unr

Man Who Lost the Sea

by Theodore Sturgeon · published 1959 · read 2022-09-21

Stranded, buried in the sand, the old man looks at the sea, while the young boy runs around with his model helicopter. Short story, published in 1959 and now available freely online. Hits its emotional notes very well. This book is part

Joseph and His Brothers

by Thomas Mann · published 1943 · read 2009-07-01

★☆☆☆☆

Underwhelming – 1500 pages not well spent. With less length, somebody might be able to see the points Mann is making, but noth like this.

The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann · published 1924 · read 2010-04-01

★☆☆☆☆

Nothing happens. People are sick and nothing happens. Then, nothing happens some more but in unspeakably long sentences. The protagonist stays in a sanatorium for seven years without ever being really sick. There are a lot of lectures.

Schadenfreude

by Tiffany Watt Smith · published 2018 · read 2021-01-08

Schadenfreude ist die schönste Freude” – “Schadenfreude is the best joy” says a German proverb. If you're not on board with this, this book might make you look at the more positive sides of finding joy in other people's misfortune. Or it mi

The Drawing of the Dark

by Tim Powers · published 1979 · read 2020-07-21

Taking place in Vienna, 1529, during the Turkish attack, this book is showing the struggle of "The West" and "The East" in the form of historical fantasy. The premise is, more or less, that the forces of East and West live in a constant str

Das Paradies der Schwerter

by Tobias O. Meißner · published 2004 · read 2022-01-19

★☆☆☆☆

Well, at least I'll learn to not trust /r/fantasy recommendations blindly. Praised as a really good piece of German Fantasy, where the au

Sharp Teeth

by Toby Barlow · published 2007 · read 2021-03-16

Werewolf packs in LA might seem like an urban fantasy staple (and it is), but not like this: Toby Barlow tells the brutal (but not edgy! never that) story of the werewolves and their surroundings in form of an epic, 300 page modern poem.

The Wave

by Todd Strasser · published 1981 · read 2006-11-01

Given a choice among classics in the "scaring the youngsters off bad politics" genre, I prefer The Wave to 1986.

The Victorian Internet

by Tom Standage · published 1998 · read 2019-05-24

My first non-fiction book in quite some time, The Victorian Internet is a nice introduction into the rise and fall of the electrical telegraph, and all its implications. Tom Standage shows us in an easy, meandering style how the world

The Right Stuff

by Tom Wolfe · published 1979 · read 2022-02-11

The Right Stuff is what you need to be an absolutely bonkers guy, who thinks that a 23% likelihood of dying in an accident on the job (as a soldier, so excluding any combat deaths) sounds great and fun. It's the story of fighter pilots, a

Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict

by Tsultrim Allione · published 2008 · read 2020-05-24

Feeding Your Demons is woo. It introduces a meditation technique that is rooted in Buddhism and was adapted by the author (a once-Buddhist-nun, now American coach) to a Western audience. The author's voice is a bit grating and, as is requir

Just a Random Tuesday…

by Twisted Biscuit · published 2006 · read 2021-01-09

Delightfully snarky fanfic, in which we get a mostly canon-compliant inner monologue of McGonagall, mostly about Umbridge, ridiculous students and absurd colleagues. Good length, good general writing style, but lots of fluctuations in quali

Das Dritte Reich: Geschichte einer Diktatur

by Ulrich Herbert · published 2016 · read 2018-02-10

Sehr trocken geschrieben. Der Band zur 1918er-Revolution aus derselben Reihe ist da ungleich besser.

Foucault’s Pendulum

by Umberto Eco · published 1988 · read 2012-07-23

Umberto Eco is a show-off. He goes all in on being a show-off, and he doesn't mind being pretentious and shoving obscure references down your throat either. As all nerds, once he gets going, he's unlikely to stop any time soon, so his books

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco · published 1980 · last read 2021-08-12

Medieval monks? Thinly disguised opportunities to lecture the reader about history and theology? Showing off your knowledge of obscure and less obscure references? It might sound obnoxious, but Eco is obviously just a giant nerd and is havi

Tehanu

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1990 · read 2018-03-04

I liked the non-male focus on regular lives a lot! Tenar and Tenahu are both really cool. But the story was weird … pacing, content, it felt irregular and all over the place for me. Story 2/5, setting 4/5.

The Word for World is Forest

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1972 · read 2018-02-21

I enjoyed it a lot. While I would have liked to get to know the alien culture (and its language!) even better, I was given a lot of context. Also, the story is told as seen by an alien, a nice human anthropologist, and a horrible, vicious,

The Farthest Shore

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1972 · read 2018-02-22

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1973 · read 2018-02-02

4.5 stars, really.

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 2004 · read 2019-11-15

Infinitely referenced.

Gifts

Gifts by Ursula Le Guin is one of the books that I will be able to remember clearly for its atmosphere for a long time, but I didn't actually particularly like it. It's good Fantasy, with a ton of character building and world building. Th

The Lathe of Heaven

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1971 · last read 2023-07-26

I liked the premise of one person (well. -ish) changing the world via dreams, inclusing heavy retroactive changes. I liked the characterisations, and the overall themes, even if the pacing was a bit off. I even agree with the (Taoist) philo

The Other Wind

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 2001 · read 2018-04-29

A good end to the series. The different roles and characters were great, and the explanations of humans vs dragons explained previous plots.

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1974 · read 2018-02-12

Anarchist SciFi by Ursula K. Le Guin. It's a bit slow, but the content made me forget all about that.

Planet of Exile

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1966 · read 2018-04-20

I definitely liked this one more than World of Rocannon. It shows us two alien cultures as seen by the other culture, and their interactions. It's short and simple, and its narrative arch is not very impressive, but it's okay or even good s

The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1969 · last read 2024-06-19

Wow! This is a fantastic, clever, wonderful scifi book. I loved the explicitly humanoid species (that are probably expanded on, especially their origin, in other parts of the series). I loved the mostly-androgynous species, their peculiarit

City of Illusions

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1967 · read 2018-08-20

City of Illusions is part of the Heinish Cycle, and a good one at that! This book starts out slow, and then meanders, and then reaches a good ending – that is cut way too short, in my opinion. As is common with Ursula K. le Guin, we see

Tales from Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 2001 · read 2018-04-03

A couple of short stories taking place in Earthsea. I enjoyed how all of them showed some characters we knew already (sometimes just in passing), but through the eyes of people who would count as "insignificant" in most stories.

The Telling

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 2000 · read 2019-04-02

And yet again, Ursula K. Le Guin makes me happy. In The Telling she explores a society changing following first contact with a wider galactical (pan-human) civilisation. Part of her Hainish Cycle, we see a world desparate to catch u

A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1968 · last read 2023-02-15

Deep wisdom, calm storytelling, and some love shining through: I love Earthsea a lot, and re-reading this book made me very happy. Apart from the near-lyrical style, I was also surprised to remember that the story is quite dense, and there

Rocannon’s World

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1966 · read 2018-03-03

As opposed to most Le Guin books, this one did not work for me. I was distracted by the different species on the planet, and the pacing was off, and there's something I can't name. The ending nearly raised the book to 3/5, but not quite.

The Day Before the Revolution

by Ursula K. Le Guin · published 1974 · read 2018-02-17