Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88

Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88
The New York Times ^ | January 23, 2018 | Gerald Jonas

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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KEYWORDS: earthsea; fantasy; lefthandofdarkness; leguin; literature; obituary; sciencefiction; thedispossessed; thelatheofheaven; ursulakleguin; ursulaleguin

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She was one of the few female scifi authors I really enjoyed (except for Andre Norton when was really young and getting into scifi)....

21 posted on 01/24/2018 3:01:44 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives......;-))

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