reading crustacean wants to read Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Iron Widow #1)
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Iron Widow #1)
Science fiction and East Asian myth combine in this dazzling retelling of the rise of Wu Zetian, the only female …
This one, to me, seemed very untypical for Le Guin. I would have thought it was one of her first, but actually it was written after the hainish cycle. The Taoism is very on the nose here, but it doesn't have much of the poetry and the reverence for life and mind that I loved about her other works.
It was written as an homage to Philip K. Dick and it really read more like one of his novels, like classical 70s sci-fi.
