Paradises Lost — Ursula K. Le Guin

Paradises Lost -- Ursula K. Le GuinAvailable in the collections, The Birthday Of The World and Other Stories, and The Found and the Lost.

One of my favourite Le Guin stories, which takes place inside a generation ship built inside a large asteroid trundling across space towards a distant Earth-like planet.

The problem with a generation ship is that after a while it becomes the only home the people on board have ever known, which can eventually lead to factions forming around the purpose of the mission.   Why should these later generations live and end their lives according to an idea from a planet and peoples that have nothing to do with them whatsoever?

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Belladonna Nights and Other Stories — Alastair Reynolds

Belladonna Nights and Other Stories -- Alastair ReynoldsI’ve rearranged the stories into date order, rather than the order they are in the collection: coz that’s juse how i roll, darlings.   Obviously, you can read them in any order you chose as well.

Revelation Space

Night Passage – 2017

House of Suns

Belladonna Nights – 2017

Standalones

For the Ages – 2011
Magic Bone Woman – 2011
The Lobby – 2013
A Map of Mercury – 2013
Wrecking Party – 2014
A Murmuration – 2015
Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee – 2016
Visiting Hours – 2017
Holdfast – 2017
Different Seas – 2018
Providence – 2018
Death’s Door – 2018
Open and Shut – 2021
Plague Music – 2021

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The Found and the Lost — Ursula K. Le Guin

The Found and the Lost -- Ursula K. Le Guin

Standalones

Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight – 1987
Hernes – 1991
Paradises Lost – 2002

Hainish

Vaster than Empires and More Slow – 1971
The Matter of Seggri – 1994
Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea – 1994

Yeowe and Werel

Forgiveness Day – 1994
A Man of the People – 1995
A Woman’s Liberation – 1995
Old Music and the Slave Women – 1996

Earthsea

Dragonfly – 1998
The Finder – 2001
On the High Marsh – 2001

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