Science Fiction in Literature

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This paper examines two works: Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's "Te Mote in God's Eye" and Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Left Hand of Darkness". Both books are good examples of works in which human nature is changed nearly beyond our ability to recognize it. All three authors, but especially LeGuin, manipulate the role of learning.

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"One of the most important devices that science fiction writers use in examining what is essentially and fundamentally human and what is incidental to our nature (an artifact of the particular time and place in which we live) is to place their characters in either utopian or dystopic societies. While these types of societies obviously differ in many aspects, they share a fundamental similarity in that both are centrally planned social systems in which the rights of individuals are sacrificed to the rights of the group."

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