THE MASTERS BY URSULA K. LE GUIN (SHORT STORY REVIEW)
Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers! How are you doing? I've actually just returned from an unplanned vacation...and guess what? I'm back with another Le Guin reading recommendation. In my past post, I reviewed Tenahu, the fourth book in the Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin. Today I'll recommend and review a STEM themed short story from Ursula K. Le Guin! If you haven't noticed, I'm something of a fan. The short story in question is titled The Masters . It's one of Ursula's early works. If I'm not mistaken, it's her first or second published work. Some sources list is as first publish work, some as the second one. Published in 1963, this short story is set in a dystopian future. It opens with a young protagonist undergoing an initiation of some kind. Soon, we as readers learn more about this initiation as well as the dystopian society he lives in. It's a preindustrial sort of world where the Sun is only occasionally seen. It's possib...