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    The telling

    by Le Guin, Ursula K.

    October 31, 2011

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    Call Number: SF

    Sutty, a traveler from Earth, comes to the planet Aka to study its culture and people. However, she arrives in a place very different from what she expects. Instead of a world with an ancient culture and language she finds a planet rushing towards modernization - and in the process losing many of the things that made it unique, the very things she came to study. Everywhere she goes, this state mandated progress is overseen by government agents, frightening censors, and police.This hits close to home for Sutty (so to speak) because she herself is a refugee from an Earth ruled by an oppressive... Read Full Review

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