Short Reviews: Ursula K. Le Guin

"The Poacher" [permanent link]. An interesting alternative look at a fairy-tale, this time told from the point of view of a pheasant who, while wandering in a forest, encounters a hedge of thorns. Find out what happens as he cuts through it and finds out what is inside the hedge.
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"The Shobies' Story" [permanent link]. A quiet tale about a group of people (various kinds of humans, aliens), who are peparing themselves to make the first interstellar jump using 'Churten' technology. But as they make the jump, they find themselves in conflict: have they made the jump? Where have they jumped to? The resolution and their survival would require them to group and work together as never before.
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"Vaster than Empires and More Slow" [permanent link]. A story about a crew of interstellar explorers who may not be quite sane; who would be, after being isolated from the rest of humanity and cooped up with the same people for ages. But in this crew, one person was really a misfit; yet he may hold the key to surviving on a planet they are exploring.
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"The Wild Girls" [permanent link]. A story that starts off slow but gradually builds to a good climax in a tale set within a different but interesting social system. A group of soldiers kidnaps some girls which are then sold except for a baby who is left for dead. Bus as their lives develop and they become valuable comodities, the dead baby will come back to haunt them all in a chilling way.
Found in March 2002 Asimov's Science Fiction

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