Tag Archives: Ursula Le Guin

In the Chinks of the World Machine

Posted on August 22, 2018 by jananson

In the Chinks of the World Machine provides a committed but very readable picture of the achievements of serious science fiction by women at the time of its publication in 1988. Sarah Lefanu was in a privileged position to write … Continue reading →

Jean Hegland’s Into the Forest

Posted on January 6, 2017 by jananson

I first heard about Jean Hegland’s novel Into the Forest in an Interzone review by David Pringle in 1998, two years after the book was published. Hegland is a West Coast author and Pringle positioned her novel in a subgenre … Continue reading →

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Future Primitive

Posted on April 23, 2015 by jananson

A particular kind of science fiction converges with green aspirations in ‘future primitive’ visions of a future society less dominated by technology. There are positive and negative versions of this kind of future – and positive and negative pathways to … Continue reading →