Posted on 01/23/2018 3:42:28 PM PST by EveningStar
Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like “The Left Hand of Darkness” and the Earthsea series, died on Monday at her home in Portland, Ore. She was 88.
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One of my favorite SciFi stories!
She also did Left a Hand of Darkness.
I read one or both of her best known books.
But for the life of me, I remember nothing from them.
I just watched the PBS version of Lathe of Heaven again for the first time in 35 years last week. Man, it is incredible. Ursula K. Le Guin was amazing.
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/UKL_info.html
Still have a lot of her books. Always a shame when a writer of her quality leaves us.
I have always loved her books.
“The Dispossessed” was interesting: one of the worlds in that book was a place where Communism actually worked. And what I saw in that world was a very bleak place, where no one really had friends or owned anything except their name. Yet I don’t think that Ursula K. LeGuin saw that world the same way I did.
Somewhere, I have a book signed by her. I need to find it.
She was a great author, although her politics were far, far left.
RIP.
With a few glaring exceptions like Heinlein, many of the well known SF authors were/are Lefties.
Remember that on television broadcast back in the 80’s
Great story.... the broadcast here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anl0nKLABWo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lathe_of_Heaven_(film)
Always good to see a good contradiction in terms to describe a self-indulgent social philosophy best understood as teeny-bopper Stalinism.
Oh, I knew her. Had dinner together once.
“Changing Planes” is my favorite. I have a few signed copies of it.
I read her "The Left Hand of Darkness," but like you, I do not remember the book at all.
I just checked the book's Wikipedia entry. I see why I forgot.
Lathe of Heaven is a MASTERPIECE.
There’s a PBS interview video of her on youtube back in 1979 where she explains the film and states that it had a production budget of $250k!
Say Antwerp..
Sad to hear this - she was always one of my faves...
That was my mother’s name.(sigh)
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“I just checked the book’s Wikipedia entry. I see why I forgot.”
Yep.
Not a big fantasy fan, but liked what I read of hers. RIP.
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