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The Word For Man Is Ishi

The Last Archive

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The Origins of Science Fiction

The anthropologist narrator was one of Ligwen's first major innovations in science fiction. It allowed her to smuggle a whole set of big ideas from academic anthropology into science fiction. A Wizard of Earthsea, the left hand of darkness and the lathe of heaven are some of the most famous science fiction books of all time.

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