A review by towercity
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands by Ursula K. Le Guin

I am fascinated by Le Guin's ability to frame stories as though they were anthropological investigations: she can take what, at first glance, appears as little more than description of some alien species and imbue it with something I'm tempted to call a quiet humanity, although of course she is not describing humanity, but quite literally inhuman creatures. In its way, this involves a mundane acceptance of the inhuman. This is very nice.