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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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How do we classify this unusual book called Hav? Author Jan Morris refers to it as an allegory, but is less forthcoming about what her allegory represents. Ursula K. Le Guin, for her part, prefers to describe Hav as science fiction—but there isn't much science here, and surprisingly little deference to the usual modes of fiction. Some readers have even …

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