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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.
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.
Sad to hear this - she was always one of my faves...
Not a big fantasy fan, but liked what I read of hers. RIP.
She was one of the few female scifi authors I really enjoyed (except for Andre Norton when was really young and getting into scifi)....