"Paradises Lost"
Title | "Paradises Lost" |
Year for Search | 2002 |
Authors | Le Guin, Ursula K[roeber](1929-2018) |
Secondary Title | The Birthday of the World and Other Stories |
Pagination | 249-362 |
Date Published | 2002 |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Place Published | New York |
Keywords | Female author, US author |
Annotation | Includes two societies, both with eutopian elements, on a multi-generation starship. The primary society is the one designed for the people on the starship, as modified by the people themselves. It is explicitly eutopian with an emphasis on "Peace and plenty. Light and warmth. Safety and freedom" (300). But it nearly succumbs to the religious belief of those who conclude there is nothing outside the ship. At the end, the first group begin to build a new society on a planet, while the second choose to travel forever. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 689-801. |
Info Notes | First publication. |
Holding Institutions | Merril, O, PSt, PU |
Author Note | Female author (1929-2018) |
Full Text | 2002 Le Guin, Ursula K[roeber] (1929-2018). “Paradises Lost.” In her The Birthday of the World and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 249-362. First publication. Rpt. in The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 689-801. Merril, O, PSt, PU Includes two societies on a multi-generation starship. The primary society is the one designed for the people on the starship, as modified by the people themselves. It is explicitly eutopian with an emphasis on “Peace and plenty. Light and warmth. Safety and freedom” (300). But it nearly succumbs to the religious belief of those who conclude there is nothing outside the ship. At the end, the first group begin to build a new society on a planet, while the second choose to travel forever. Female author. |