SOURCE: Byrne, Deirdre. “Truth and Story: History in Ursula K. Le Guin's Short Fiction and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” In Future Females The Next Generation: New Voices and Velocities in Feminist Science Fiction Criticism, edited by Marleen S. Barr, pp. 237-46. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
In the following essay, Byrne argues that Le Guin's “recent Science Fiction and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Share important assumptions about truth, story, and how history is made.”