The eye of the heron

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Ursula K. Le Guin: The eye of the heron (2000, GK Hall)

204 pages

English language

Published Oct. 29, 2000 by GK Hall.

ISBN:
978-0-7838-8843-9
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OCLC Number:
42437176

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The story of two communities of outcasts from earth living on another planet.

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Social sci-fi about non-violence

(em português: sol2070.in/2024/05/livro-the-eye-of-the-heron-ursula-le-guin/ )

Ursula K. Le Guin often writes some of the best science fiction books on specific themes: “The Dispossessed”, about anarchism; “The Left Hand of Darkness”, about gender fluidity; and “The Eye of The Heron” (1978), about non-violence.

In the latter, two groups are exiled from Earth as a kind of scum: people convicted of crimes and pacifist activists who refused to participate in society in nations at war. The convicts arrived a few generations earlier. They had been expelled from a self-destructing Earth with no more prison capacity, on a one-way trip to the prison planet. So they recreate an authoritarian and hierarchical society.

The activists, on the other hand, were adherents of non-violent direct action and gave rise to an essentially anarchist community. I'm not going to comment any further because the revelation about their history and how their exile came about …

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