A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 15
It’s Katie Grocott in the studio this week with Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about “Things”, written by Ursula Le Guin in 1970. This is a short story about a society sharply divided between nihilist marauders and maudlin do-nothings… and two people who don’t really fit in either camp. Oh, and masonry. Music is “To the Sea” by Yello and “Ende Neu” by Einsturzende Neubauten.
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this is one of my favourite stories! i once wrote a short story only to realise i’d cribbed the whole idea from this and had to scrap it.
one of the things i noticed, hearing it read, was that there’s a moment where she semi-quotes that famous hemingway short-short: a cobbler burns ’shoes, never worn’.
Ursula Le Guin, burned by TV…
http://io9.com/5068963/one-good-reason-some-of-sfs-best-books-dont-become-movies
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