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meliache

meliache@bookrastinating.com

Joined 10 months ago

I'm a PhD student in high energy physics. I like reading

  • Fiction

    • SciFi: Iain M. Banks, Greg Egan, LeGuin...
    • Fantasy: mostly Terry Pratchett
    • Literature: occasionally
  • Non-Fiction

    • popular science
    • self-improvement
    • cooking and fermentation books
    • occasionally history books and biographies

Most of my general ramblings can be found at @meliache@hep.social. For more online identities with cryptographic proofs that they belong to me see my keyoxide profile

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Ursula K. Le Guin: The  Dispossessed (Hardcover, 1991, Harper Paperbacks) 4 stars

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, …

Got it for free in English in an open bookshelf and feel incredibly lucky. From LeGuin so far I only read "The Left Hand of Darkness", which I really enjoyed, the short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and the collection "The Unreal and the Real Volume 2: Outer Space & Inner Lands"