Orsinian Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin (1976)

This is a collection of short stories set in the fictional Central European country Orsinia. Most of the stories are new for the book, though a couple were published previously, and the invention of the country itself was one of Le Guin's first creative writing projects. It's basically an alt-history Czechia or Hungary, borrowing from real wars and political events; stories set in the Cold War era show Orsinia as a satellite state of the Soviet Union. Aside from the alternate history, the stories have no speculative elements.

I hadn't read this before because it didn't sound like it was up my alley. But it was next up in my chronological read of Le Guin's books, so I gave it a chance, and guess what? It wasn't up my alley!

I freely admit that a big part of the issue is that I'm the wrong audience for what she was trying to do here. A number of the stories are the sort of litfic where the entire plot is family/relationship drama and everyone is miserable, which is a genre that I find deadly dull even if Ursula Le Guin writes it. But I also don't think the prose is up to her usual standard. It's more reminiscent of her early work, and some of it openly is early work! But even the stories dated 1976 read like revisions of something pulled from the previous decade's drawer.

What surprised me the most is how generic I found the worldbuilding to be. It comes off like she wanted to write about Central Europe but didn't have the depth of knowledge to write about any specific country, so instead we have this Ruritanian stand-in that does not have any real weight to it or any distinctive qualities or culture. The stories I enjoyed the most were the ones set prior to the 20th century, which at least took me to an interesting time if not to an especially compelling place.

So yeah, this wasn't for me. Oh well, at least it was short.

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princessofgeeks

You are exactly right: She DID want to write about Hungary or Slovakia but felt that she didn't have the time or research chops to really make it accurate, so instead in order to explore the themes that she wanted, she made up a country.

I enjoyed these stories immensely because of her characterization skills, and I felt the writing was up to her standards personally.

The description of the lake near the main family's country home has stayed with me for years.

In fact you are prompting me to reread!

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pauraque

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Her writing was pretty varied so it's not surprising that not everything will be my cup of tea. (I plan to skip most/all the books of poetry, as I don't think anyone needs multiple rounds of me saying "I don't really get poetry.")

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princessofgeeks

I have never read any of her poetry except one piece I really liked: Always Coming Home.

But I don't know much about that part of her work at all.

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pauraque

I actually love the poems in Always Coming Home, I think because they're integrated into the worldbuilding so they feel more accessible to me in that way. But I don't know a lot about poetry or how to read it, so it often leaves me scratching my head. Maybe I'll try some of Le Guin's contemporary poetry when I get to a book I can find; some of her earlier poetry collections are out of print. (There is a comprehensive one-volume Collected Poems, but it's 800 pages!)

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raven

Agree agree agree. These ones are so dull to me, because they don't have any SFF distinctiveness, and so much of the relationship drama is miserable and tedious. There is a book by Zoe Gilbert, Folk, which I feel like might be drawing on some of Le Guin's ideas and I have just dnf'ed because dull.

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pauraque

It's an interesting comparison to her Very Far Away From Anywhere Else, which as you may recall was non-SFF that I did like, and from the same year. That book had a clear sense of place and culture, which I imagine is because it's set where the author lived: the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s. By contrast, Orsinia feels hazy and nonspecific, neither capturing the soul of a real place nor filling in with vivid invented details as she did in her SFF.

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starshipfox

I remember reading somewhere that she said she came up with Orsinia because she didn't realise you could write fantasy that wasn't set in a version of Europe? And once she did realise that, she could write much more freely. I don't know why she decided to revisit this in the 70s in the case. I've read a couple of these stories within a longer anthology of her work, and I thought they were OK, but I've never been tempted to seek out more!

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pauraque

Yeah, I don't know, you'd think in returning to it she'd have had something more interesting in mind, but whatever it was that she found compelling about it wasn't coming across on the page. She used the setting again in some later stories that apparently didn't make any particular impression on me. There's also a novel, Malafrena, which I suppose I will be attempting after my re-read of the unrelated novel The Eye of the Heron since that's where it falls in publication order. We'll see how it goes!

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  - beyond the bark [1]
  - bill williams [1]
  - blizzard entertainment [1]
  - broderbund software [2]
  - bydandan [1]
  - c.m. ralph [1]
  - cadabra games [1]
  - chief rebel [1]
  - color gray games [2]
  - computing specialties [1]
  - crl group [1]
  - cube legal [1]
  - cyberdreams [1]
  - daedelic entertainment [1]
  - dan baker [1]
  - daniel benmergui [1]
  - deadlycrow games [1]
  - dma design [1]
  - double fine [3]
  - dreamforge [1]
  - eclipse software [1]
  - focus hill games [1]
  - friend shaped games [1]
  - frolic studio [1]
  - funcom [1]
  - fáyer [1]
  - ghost creative studios [1]
  - giant squid [1]
  - gray design associates [1]
  - grizzly games [1]
  - gugames [1]
  - hammered crow [1]
  - hermanos magia [1]
  - hongoneon [1]
  - horis international [1]
  - hummingwarp [1]
  - icy mountain studio [1]
  - imaginarylab [1]
  - inkle [1]
  - isometricorp games [1]
  - jamwitch [1]
  - jump over the age [2]
  - kenneth morse [1]
  - kevin bales [1]
  - lance [1]
  - love conquers all [1]
  - lucas pope [2]
  - lucasarts/lucasfilm [13]
  - lucito loquito [1]
  - maddy makes games [1]
  - made from strings [1]
  - mahdi bahrami [1]
  - marevo collective [1]
  - matthew alexander [1]
  - maxis [1]
  - mediatonic [1]
  - michael abbott [1]
  - microlink [1]
  - microsoft [1]
  - mike bellika [1]
  - mike saenz [1]
  - mino_dev [1]
  - mobius digital [2]
  - montraluz [1]
  - montsoft [1]
  - moraffware [2]
  - nels anderson [1]
  - obsidian entertainment [1]
  - p.z. karen co. [1]
  - paramo games [1]
  - patapez interactive [1]
  - polychroma games [1]
  - pomelo games [1]
  - poncle [1]
  - powerhoof [3]
  - pál balog [1]
  - re-logic [1]
  - redwood games [1]
  - rundisc [1]
  - sharedata [1]
  - sierra/on-line systems [6]
  - steven don [1]
  - stone/digital extremes [1]
  - sukeban games [1]
  - sunhead games [1]
  - synapse software [1]
  - telltale games [1]
  - terrible toybox [1]
  - terry cavanagh [2]
  - the brotherhood [1]
  - the dreamers guild [1]
  - the edge [1]
  - the game kitchen [1]
  - the learning company [2]
  - the software toolworks [2]
  - third world [1]
  - thomas colthurst [1]
  - tiago rech [2]
  - tokoronyori [1]
  - uppercut games [2]
  - videlectrix [4]
  - videocult [1]
  - wagotabi limited [1]
  - westwood studios [1]
  - wishfully studios [1]
  - za/um [1]
- genre
  - action/arcade [6]
  - adult [1]
  - adventure [45]
  - artillery [1]
  - bullet hell [1]
  - city builder [2]
  - deduction [3]
  - edutainment [13]
  - exploration [11]
  - mmorpg [2]
  - platformer [15]
  - puzzle [26]
  - racing [1]
  - roguelike [4]
  - rpg [9]
  - shooter [6]
  - simulation [3]
  - strategy [3]
  - survival crafting [2]
  - survival horror [1]
  - tower defense [1]
  - virtual tabletop [2]
  - visual novel [5]
- year
  - 1980 [2]
  - 1981 [1]
  - 1982 [1]
  - 1983 [4]
  - 1984 [7]
  - 1985 [3]
  - 1986 [2]
  - 1987 [3]
  - 1988 [3]
  - 1989 [6]
  - 1990 [10]
  - 1991 [6]
  - 1992 [4]
  - 1993 [5]
  - 1994 [1]
  - 1995 [5]
  - 1997 [1]
  - 1998 [2]
  - 1999 [2]
  - 2005 [1]
  - 2008 [3]
  - 2009 [3]
  - 2010 [2]
  - 2011 [1]
  - 2012 [3]
  - 2013 [1]
  - 2014 [3]
  - 2015 [2]
  - 2016 [4]
  - 2017 [5]
  - 2018 [5]
  - 2019 [5]
  - 2020 [8]
  - 2021 [7]
  - 2022 [10]
  - 2023 [10]
  - 2024 [8]
  - 2025 [7]
  - 2026 [1]
gaming [9]
kink [7]
language [4]
memes [33]
- ao3 [3]
- december talking [20]
- fandom a-z [6]
- femslash february [6]
- first lines [2]
- five questions [2]
- letter [1]
- love [2]
- something every day [23]
- titles [1]
movies [12]
music [33]
personal
- dreams [8]
- family [1]
- health [11]
- mental health [7]
- mishaps [5]
- neurodivergence [1]
- parenting [1]
- random [6]
- remembrance [8]
- travel [12]
- work [1]
photos [39]
- fall colors [3]
- flowers [14]
- scenery [26]
- snow [12]
- urban [11]
plays [4]
podfic [7]
poetry [4]
queerness [15]
- gender [15]
reading [4]
social media exodus [3]
three weeks for dreamwidth [1]
videos [4]
weather [11]
writing [44]
year in review [18]
youtube [19]

mixed habitat & densely vegetated hiding places

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