The Telling

The Telling

Subgenre: other planets - Format: Paperback - Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Ace Books (10/01/2001)
ISBN: 0441008631
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The Telling

By: Ursula K. Le Guin
Paperback
Ace Books (10/01/2001)
ISBN: 0441008631

Publisher's Note

An observer from Earth for the interstellar Ekumen, Sutty is assigned to a new world in which a ruthless monolithic Corporation, seeking rapid technological advancement, has outlawed ancient beliefs and customs, but as Sutty journeys deep into the countryside and mountains, she discovers the Telling, the old faith of the Akans, a banned religion that teaches her about the meaning of her own existence. Reprint.

Editiorial Reviews

Review by Gary K. Wolfe (Locus, September 2000): "As is not uncommon with authors in the mature stages of their careers, Le Guin shows a bit less ambiguity and a good deal more economy in the telling of THE TELLING than in some of her earlier SF novels....[It] tells, all right, and it teaches, and it does all this with expected brilliance and grace, but it never really cries out."