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Title: This book made me think - "Hey this could happen!"
Review: Forget the comments left before..this book is wonderful.. i can see sort of why they say itmay be slow in the beginning but it is so well written and touching in the description of the relationship between Ai and Estraven i really got emotional over it. The fact that both are exiles - one only a few miles from his home and the other millions of miles away, makes no difference. The two share the same feeling of having no one except each other. I know it is considered science fiction, but it contains many social/anthropological overtones (Leguin's father was a noted anthropologist). If you like laser beams and space ships and time travel forget this book. If you enjoy plausible, carefully crafted original work please read this book. It made me start wondering seriously about what life elsewhere could be like. . .this time not ahead of us technologically, but with much to offer us in terms of learning about ourselves.
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