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Forlag Eos
Utgivelsesår 1994
Format Mass Market Paperback
ISBN13 9780061054884
Språk Engelsk
Sider 400
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Jeg har lest The Dispossessed av Ursula K. Le Guin som januarbok #elidas1001lesesirkel
The Dispossessed handler om forskeren Shevek som drar fra månen Anarres til moderplaneten Urras. Folkene på de to planetene skilte lag for 750 år siden da en stor gruppe anarkister valgte å flytte til Anarres. Mye av boken følger tankene til Shevek rundt oppvekst og voksenliv hos anarkistene, og besøket hos det kapitalistiske samfunnet til landet A-Io på Urras.
Dette er en science fiction som inneholder mye politisk filosofi og det er ikke min favoritt. Likevel likte jeg å lese om livet til anarkistene. På en måte føltes det like utopisk som livet på en fremmed planet er i utgangspunktet. Shevek prøver virkelig å forene to folk, men det er mer usikkert om de to ønsker å bli forent.
Dette er ikke den beste 1001-boka jeg har lest. Men den hadde sine lyspunkt.
Ingen diskusjoner ennå.
Start en diskusjon om verket Se alle diskusjoner om verketHe said, “You put another lock on the door and call it democracy.”
You are afraid of us, there. You fear we might bring back the revolution, the old one, the real one, the revolution for justice which you began and then stopped halfway. Here in A-Io they fear me less because they have forgotten the revolution. They don’t believe in it any more. They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison. But I will not believe that. I want the walls down. I want solidarity, human solidarity.
There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.
We are poor, we lack. You have, we do not have. Everything is beautiful here. Only not the faces. On Anarres nothing is beautiful, nothing but the faces. The other faces, the men and women. We have nothing but that, nothing but each other. Here you see the jewels, there you see the eyes. And in the eyes you see the splendor, the splendor of the human spirit. Because our men and women are free—possessing nothing, they are free. And you the possessors are possessed. You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes—the wall, the wall!”
He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quite necessary. No rational form of organization would serve the purpose. He simply had not understood that the purpose was to enable men with machine guns to kill unarmed men and women easily and in great quantities when told to do so.
“You see,” he said, “what we’re after is to remind ourselves that we didn’t come to Anarres for safety, but for freedom. If we must all agree, all work together, we’re no better than a machine. If an individual can’t work in solidarity with his fellows, it’s his duty to work alone. His duty and his right. We have been denying people that right. We’ve been saying, more and more often, you must work with the others, you must accept the rule of the majority. But any rule is tyranny. The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive
“My world, my Earth, is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and gobbled and fought until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first. There are no forests left on my Earth. The air is grey, the sky is grey, it is always hot. It is habitable, it is still habitable, but not as this world is. This is a living world, a harmony. Mine is a discord. You Odonians chose a desert; we Terrans made a desert. . .
Her har jeg vinnere av Hugo Award
Jeg har valgt engelske versjoner av bøkene
1953 The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
1955 They'd Rather Be Right (also known as The Forever Machine) - Mark Clifton, Frank Riley
1956 Double Star - Robert A. Heinlein
1958 The Big Time - Fritz Leiber
1959 A Case of Conscience - James Blish
1960 Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
1962 Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
1963 The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
1964 Here Gather the Stars (also known as Way Station) - Clifford D. Simak
1965 The Wanderer - Fritz Leiber
1966 Dune - Frank Herbert
1966 ...And Call Me Conrad (also known as This Immortal) - Roger Zelazny
1967 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress[Note 2] - Robert A. Heinlein
1968 Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny
1969 Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
1970 The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
1971 Ringworld - Larry Niven
1972 To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip José Farmer
1973 The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimov
1974 Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
1975 The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
1976 The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
1977 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm
1978 Gateway - Frederik Pohl
1979 Dreamsnake - Vonda N. McIntyre
1980 The Fountains of Paradise - Arthur C. Clarke
1981 The Snow Queen - Joan D. Vinge
1982 Downbelow Station - C. J. Cherryh
1983 Foundation's Edge - Isaac Asimov
1984 Startide Rising - David Brin
1985 Neuromancer - William Gibson
1986 Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
1987 Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
1988 The Uplift War - David Brin
1989 Cyteen - C. J. Cherryh
1990 Hyperion - Dan Simmons
1991 The Vor Game - Lois McMaster Bujold
1992 Barrayar - Lois McMaster Bujold
1993 A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
1993 Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
1994 Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
1995 Mirror Dance - Lois McMaster Bujold
1996 The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
1997 Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
1998 Forever Peace - Joe Haldeman
1999 To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
2000 A Deepness in the Sky - Vernor Vinge
2001 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
2002 American Gods - Neil Gaiman
2003 Hominids - Robert J. Sawyer
2004 Paladin of Souls - Lois McMaster Bujold
2005 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
2006 Spin - Robert Charles Wilson
2007 Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge
2008 The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
2009 The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
2010 The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
2010 The City & the City - China Miéville
2011 Blackout/All Clear* - Connie Willis
2012 Among Others - Jo Walton
2013 Redshirts - John Scalzi
2014 Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
*Blackout og All clear er satt opp som to bøker siden det ikke finnes noen versjon med begge
Det hadde vært fint om en kunne skrive en kommentar til hver bok i lista siden f.eks årstallet ville ikke passet som kommentar til den enkelte bok
Nebula gir ut pris for beste roman i sjangeren fantasy/science fiction utgitt i USA forrige år, siden 1966. År 1982 er uten vinner. I 1967 og 1978 ble det kåret to vinnere. For hver bok står det hvilke bøker som var nominert. Kilden er her
De nominerte i 1982 var:
Little, Big by John Crowley
The Many-Coloured Land by Julian May
Radix by A A Attanasio
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Fantasy
1. Classic fantasy: Robin Hobb - "Assasin´s Apprentice"
2. Magic school: J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter And the Half-blood Prince"
3. Necromancers
4. PTSD: Tahereh Mafi - "Shatter me"
5. Dragons
6. Fairytale (retelling)
7. Grimdark: Jan Roar Leikvoll - «Fiolinane»
8. Ghosts: Charles Dickens - "A Christmas carol"
9. Uncommon fantasy creatures: Terry Pratchett - "The light fantastic" (example: druids and trolls rarely appear in books, the sentient Luggage, and so forth)
10. Shapeshifters: Sarah J. Maas - "Empire of storms"
11. Gods: Terry Pratchett - "The colour of magic"
12. Animal companions: Philip Pullman - "The Amber Spyglass"
13. Maternal heritage
14. Set in our world: J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
15. Witches: Kelly Barnhill - "The girl who drank the moon"
16. Magical Law Enforcement: Ben Aaronovitch - "Rivers of London"
17. Thief: Leigh Bardugo - "Six of crows"
18. Pirates
19. Portal Fantasy: Philip Pullman - "The Subtle Knife"
20. Warrior: Lian Hearn - "I lys av månen"
Sci-fi
1. On a different planet: Ursula le Guin - "Left hand of darkness"
2. Utopia: Ursula le Guin - "The dispossessed"
3. Space ship: Stanislaw Lem - "The star diaries"
4. Steampunk
5. Time Travel: Diana Gabaldon - "Outlander"
6. Artificial Intelligence pov
7. Proto Sci-fi
8. Hive
9. Alien
10. Virtual reality
11. Super powers: Jessica Townsend - "Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow"
12. Science
13. Replicate
14. Space colonization
15. Mecha
16. Space creatures/beasts
17. Teleportation: Madeleine L´engle - "A wrinkle in time"
18. Space western
19. The moon: N. K. Jemisin - "Stone sky"
20. Invasion
Generic
1. Satire: Terry Pratchett og Neil Gaiman - «Good Omens»
2. Under 500 pages: Dag Solstad - "Genanse og verdighet" (eller må det også være fantasy i denne kategorien?)
3. Over 800 pages: Sarah J. Maas - "Kingdom of Ash"
4. Novella: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "A study in scarlet"
5. Finish a series: Lian Hearn - "Barn av Otori" "
6. Mental health: Gail Honeyman - "Eleanor Oliphant har det helt fint"
7. Disability
8. Published before 1991: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "The Sign of the Four"
9. Set in Africa
10. Library: Sarah J. Maas - "Tower of Dawn"
11. By a woman of color: N. S. Jemisin - "The obelisk gate"
12. One word title: Neil Shusterman - "Scythe"