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Review title: Splendid Short Story Collection from Le Guin
Product review: This is a fine mix of stories - some old and some new - set primarily in Le Guin's Ekumen/Hainish cycle of novels and short stories. Without question Le Guin's best works in this series are her great novels "The Left Hand of Darkness" and "The Dispossessed". One of my favorite stories in the current collection - and the very first - is "Coming of Age in Karhide", which is a fascinating, often hilarious look at a character's adolescence on the planet Gethen, taking place a few decades after the events chronicled in "The Left Hand of Darkness". The final tale "Paradises Lost" is set aboard a multigenerational starship whose crew must contend with religious fanaticism and the ship's unexpectedly swift arrival at another world. Most of the rest are just as good as these, exploring Le Guin's interests in cultural anthropology and gender relationships. All are graced with Le Guin's lyrical, often spellbinding, prose.
