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Название книги: Solitude
Автор(ы): Ursula Guin
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
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An addition to "POVERTY: The Second Report on Eleven-Soro" by Mobile
Entselenne'temharyonoterregwis Leaf, by her daughter, Serenity.MY MOTHER, A FIELD ETHnologist, took the difficulty of learning anything about
the people of Eleven-Soro as a personal challenge. The fact that she used her
children to meet that challenge might be seen as selfishness or as selflessness.
Now that I have read her report I know that she finally thought she had done
wrong. Knowing what it cost her, I wish she knew my gratitude to her for
allowing me to grow up as a person.Shortly after a robot probe reported people of the Hainish Descent on the
eleventh planet of the Soro system, she joined the orbital crew as back-up for
the three First Observers down on planet. She had spent four years in the
tree-cities of nearby Huthu. My brother In Joy Born was eight years old and I
was five; she wanted a year or two of ship duty so we could spend some time in a
Hainish-style school. My brother had enjoyed the rainforests of Huthu very much,
but thoug