Not sure if we can call this a novel or not. It's more of an anthropology or archaeology of the future. Very slow moving and conceptual and philosophical. There's a story of a journey (Stone Telling), but there's a bunch of other short stories, and poems and non-sequiteurs. Explores philosophy of life & art. Rewards close reading, so I think I'll re-read the book, & look for the cassette that originally came with it (recently re-issued on CD & LP under the title "Music & Poetry of the Kesh" https://ursulakleguintoddbarton.bandcamp.com/album/music-and-poetry-of-the-kesh).