Pre-Owned The Telling (Paperback) by Ursula K Le Guin

from fugitive

Le Guin continues her "Hainish" cycle in this work, which complements THE DISPOSSESSED and THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS. The author's previous works often explore two colliding concepts, philosophies, or human conditions (e.g., in the LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS it is the concept/condition of gender). In ...

from EmScape

Sutty is a Terran envoy of the Ekumen to the world of Aka. The Aka have suppressed and criminalized their ancient "religion" (it isn't, but that's the most expedient way to describe it. Think Buddhist.) in order to become Consumer-Producers of the Corporation State and bring their technology up t...

from Aspenhugger

"Sutty, an Observer for the interstellar Ekumen, has been assigned to Aka, a world in the grip of a materialistic government. The monolithic Corporation State of Aka has outlawed all old customs and beliefs. Sutty herself, an Earthwoman, has fled from a similar monolithic state -- but one control...

from alwright1

After living through a series of tragedies on a future, dystopian Earth, Sutty plans to travel and study the history and literature of a newly contacted planet for the Ekumen. In the 70 years it takes Sutty to reach the planet, however, major social and governmental changes force the literature, ...

from MaowangVater

Sutty leaves the rigid book-burning theocracy of Terra to become an envoy to Aka. She studies the language and customs, but arrives a century later on a planet that in the grip of a rigid book-burning anti-religious state that considers the old ideograms that she learned to be a reactionary resid...