I was on a le Guin bender for a few weeks there. But like last month’s pub crawl, now that I come to think about the details, I find it’s all a bit hazy. Which establishment’s toilets did I throw up in? The Retreat? The Napier? Which aliens were in this book? The barbarians? The weird dwarves? Weird barbarian dwarves?
Flicking through the book again is a bit like checking the gallery in my mobile phone for the photographic evidence. Ah yes, the barbarians, with their high-falutin’ speech. The settlers from another, more sophisticated, planet. The love between an alien and a local – forbidden, naturally.
So yes, a dwindling colony of aliens stuck on a barbarian world. They came, they saw, they settled, they got the phone cut off. Fifteen year seasons, a sixty year year. A very long winter ahead. Threats from the north (or was it the south?) from even MORE barbarian aliens. Loads and loads of fighting with sticks and swords.
If this book was a person, it would be dressed as Conan the Barbarian holding a ray gun with a big ghostbusters symbol around it.
In a nutshell: a shrinking group of alien colonists are forced to work alongside the local barbarians to defeat an attack from the even more barbarian locals.
Planet of Exiles scores five chocolates out of a possible ten, but I can’t remember which ones.
Flicking through the book again is a bit like checking the gallery in my mobile phone for the photographic evidence. Ah yes, the barbarians, with their high-falutin’ speech. The settlers from another, more sophisticated, planet. The love between an alien and a local – forbidden, naturally.
So yes, a dwindling colony of aliens stuck on a barbarian world. They came, they saw, they settled, they got the phone cut off. Fifteen year seasons, a sixty year year. A very long winter ahead. Threats from the north (or was it the south?) from even MORE barbarian aliens. Loads and loads of fighting with sticks and swords.
If this book was a person, it would be dressed as Conan the Barbarian holding a ray gun with a big ghostbusters symbol around it.
In a nutshell: a shrinking group of alien colonists are forced to work alongside the local barbarians to defeat an attack from the even more barbarian locals.
Planet of Exiles scores five chocolates out of a possible ten, but I can’t remember which ones.
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