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Sadly another great writer of science, fantasy and speculative fiction has died:
https://boingboing.net/2018/01/23/ursula-k-le-guin-1929-2018.html
Not my favourite writer, but I’ve read quite a bit of her work, and she knew how to write a good allegorical story.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin
Read her earthsea stuff when I was a kid at school. Can't remember it now but I did read the series so must've quite liked it
Great writer and person, RIP Ursula.
[i]Wizard of earthsea[/i] is special - great books come in all styles, but that one is definitively in the perfectly-formed, not a word out of place category. That she chose to take a giagantic shite on her own work with the latter books [Tehanu] was also awe-inspiring in its own way. Like Rembrandt returning to a self-portrait 20 years later and drawing a giant cock and balls on the canvas.
Always remember reading her novel [i]Always coming home[/i] - read it at 16 after the Earthsea books fully expecting dragons. Not an eco-anthropological study of futuristic hunter gatherers in California [Le Guin's mum and dad were eminent anthropologists in the US]. Miles too difficult for me at the time, understood next to nowt, but actually finished it just on her writing keeping me going.
I can barely remember anything of Wizard of Earthsea so I just ordered the first book to re-read, must have been 20 years... Love the Disposessed though. RIP cool lady
Yup, slipped past me until I read an obit of Hugh Masekea that mentioned she died the day before.
not a massive fan of her stuff but I read most of it. In the 60s/70s I read everything SF that I could find.
Random fact:
Same high school English class as Philip K Dick.
That's an amazing fact!
"The Left Hand of Darkness" is a must read.
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Random fact:Same high school English class as Philip K Dick.
Class K?