Prismattic comments on Three Worlds Collide (0/8) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Prismattic 02 July 2013 04:52:35AM * 0 points [-]

I was asking it ingenuously and straightforwardly, actually.

If a piece of fiction has the inferred purpose of conveying a lesson

HPMOR is clearly didactic in this way; it's not at all clear to me that Le Guin's writing is (with the exception of Omelas).