I've read The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness and know the origin of the term, but both those stories focused heavily on local events or on relations between a world and a moon so close that this wasn't really a factor. The characters weren't constantly, every chapter, dealing with the effects of thousands (or more) of people traveling between worlds being constantly out of sync with everything. Do other books in the Hainish Cycle deal more with that?
The idea seems ripe for one of those sprawling multi-generational family sagas, only instead of generations succeeding each other more or less neatly, you have to account for twenty-something Great-Great-Grandma showing up and taking back control of her bank accounts from her elderly nephew, only she's not caught up on the politics of the day, and wait, now her father has finally arrived on another planet and is back in contact again...
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Date: 2016-07-12 02:38 am (UTC)The idea seems ripe for one of those sprawling multi-generational family sagas, only instead of generations succeeding each other more or less neatly, you have to account for twenty-something Great-Great-Grandma showing up and taking back control of her bank accounts from her elderly nephew, only she's not caught up on the politics of the day, and wait, now her father has finally arrived on another planet and is back in contact again...