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” which was one of my favorite books of 2021 . Like the new book, “Cease to Understand” is anchored in the facts of 20th-century science, but it’s wildly imaginative as well. Mixing truth and fiction, it manages to delight even as it charts the grim Venn diagram of knowledge and madness.I do not experience my life as bearable unless I make sure to read fiction for at least an hour a day, no matter how unreasonable it is for me to devote myself to private enjoyments.
The fiction that made my life bearable throughout is about a life that has become unbearable. Soviet master Yuri Trifonov’s delicately devastating novella, “” , follows a newly bereaved widow who has no choice but to go on cohabitating with her vituperative mother-in-law in the wake of her husband’s death. As she tries and fails to avoid the embittered old woman in their cramped Moscow apartment, she finds herself besieged by questions it is too late to resolve.
For all her sophisticated humanism, Le Guin could also be an awful lot of fun. Nowhere is that clearer than in “Rocannon’s World.” A sci-fi story wrapped around a heroic fantasy epic wrapped around a sci-fi story, it comes complete with telepathic gnomes, knights on flying cat beasts and, of course, the problem of interplanetary colonial politics under conditions of relativistic time dilation during near-lightspeed travel.
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