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{{Short description|Short story & novellas collection}}
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| name = A Fisherman of the Inland Sea
▲| image = File:AFishermanOfTheInlandSea.jpg
| caption = First edition
| author = [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = [[Science fiction]]
| publisher = [[Harper Prism]]
| pub_date = 1994
| media_type = Print (hardcover)
| pages = 191
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| congress = PS3562.E42 F57 1994
| oclc = 30895953
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'''''A Fisherman of the Inland Sea''''' is a 1994 collection of [[short story|short stories]] and
==Contents==
The collection comprises eight works:
*"The First Contact with the Gorgonids"
*"Newton's Sleep"
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*"The Rock That Changed Things"
*"The Kerastion"
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*"
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==Details==
===The Ascent of the North Face===▼
Told in the style of Victorian [[Boys Own]] [[Ripping Yarns]], the joke is in the fact the north face is not of some Himalayan mountain being scaled by westerners but Indian climbers and that the north face refers to the north face of a suburban house in [[Portland Oregon]] near where Le Guin lived.▼
=== The First Contact with the Gorgonids ===
"The First Contact with the Gorgonids" is a running joke within Le
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In a postcataclysmic earth, society is rebuilt on an orbiting space station in the form of a new Utopia ruled by an elect group of scientists who have established reason as the guiding principle. The story tells of the conflict that arises when a resurgent religion begins.
[[The Shobies' Story]] follows the protagonists of the first successful jump to a planet using Churten theory. Who discover that their experience and memories of the planet are radically different. This matters because Churten theory is more philosophical than scientific. The dissonance between their perceptions of the planets creates massive existential rifts in the fabric of space and time. The story tells of the protagonist attempt to reconcile their perceptions of what happened and mend the rift.▼
▲=== The Ascent of the North Face ===
===Dancing to Ganam===▼
▲This story is mock-heroic in character. Told in the style of Victorian [[Boys Own]] [[Ripping Yarns]],{{Cn|date=May 2024}} the joke is in the fact the north face is not of some Himalayan mountain being scaled by westerners but Indian climbers and that the north face refers to the north face of a suburban house in [[Portland Oregon]] near where Le Guin lived.
===The Shobies' Story===
{{main|The Shobies' Story}}
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▲===Dancing to Ganam===
When they arrive, another Earth Human called Dalzul has also arrived. Dalzul is charismatic and diplomatic and has just flown the same Faster than light technology to a new planet but without the “distortions” of reality found in the Shobies Storey. When he arrived he found a planet called Ganam, an isolated world inhabited by pre-industrial humans. Dalzul suggests that they join him on a return flight. ▼
"Dancing to Ganam" is also set in the Hainish universe, and forms a sequel to "The Shobies' Story".
▲Two humans (Shan and Tai) from a far future Earth, have arrived on the fictional planet Hain, heroes due to their being crew members of the first [[faster-than-light]] space flight, depicted in "The Shobies' Story". When they arrive, another Earth
He suggests that during the flight they sing together to synchronize their perceptions of the flight, and this strategy seems to be successful. When they arrive they are honored and Dalzul is treated as a god-king. The longer they stay on the planet however, the more the Shobies find dissonances in reality causing confusion and uncertainty.▼
▲Dalzul suggests that they join him on a return flight, Tai declines and Shan accepts. He suggests that during the flight they sing together to synchronize their perceptions of the flight, and this strategy seems to be successful. When they arrive they are honored and Dalzul is treated as a god-king. The longer they stay on the planet however, the more the
Dalzul
=== Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea ===
"Another Story
The plot follows a
▲The plot follows a [[scientist]] from the ([[fictional]]) a planet O who turns his back on the quiet rural life of his planet to join in the development of a [[faster than light]] technology called Churten Theory.<ref>[http://dannyreviews.com/h/A_Fisherman_of_the_Inland_Sea.html A book review by Danny Yee © 1995 ] Danny Yee's Book Reviews.</ref>
When he arrives there is a message waiting for him which he does not read because it is too garbled. Gripped with a great remorse for what he has left he pours himself into his work and manages to make a massive leap in the understanding of Churten theory, but which unintentionally transports him back to the time and place that he left his home. There he re-establishes his life and relationships that he left behind and lives out his life in his home world. Many years in the future, on the day he would arrive in Hain he sends a message to himself, the garbled message he himself received so many years ago. That message is the story of his life and is itself the content of the story we are reading.
==References==
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