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Humans have landed on the planet of Athshe, enslaved its small, furry inhabitants and started to chop down its forests. One of the Athshe, Selver, leads a rebellion, with brutal and tragic consequences. In a foreword to her 1973 novel The Word For World Is Forest (TWFWIF), Ursula Le Guin warns...

In what way is that novel Sci-Fi? It seems to me to be a study in a social issue and taken off-world to do it.

Hello everyone! After a month's hiatus we're back. This month we're talking about one of the all-time classics of science-fiction literature, and arguably the book that demonstrated science-fiction could be literature: Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand Of Darkness, a million-selling Hugo and...

I read A Wizard of Earthsea recently. I really enjoyed the book. The prose was lovely - very archaic and flowed in a unique style. It reminded me of Roger Zelazny Princes in Amber for some reason. Is this indicative of Le Guins wider work or is this particular voice just for the Earthsea...

What makes something a classic – to have survived the passage of time and be judged (by rough consensus) to be outstanding in its field, to have a known value, to be considered of the highest quality of its time? Is it a sense of being important in a genre’s history? Sometimes. Is it about...

Dear all, this is my first post, hello everyone! I need a little help: I am a huge fan of Ursula's writtings and nowadays I am trying to compile as much writtings of her as I can about cats. She was a huge cat lover, you probably know that, and she has a series of children's books called...

Ursula K. Le Guin is getting her own commemorative stamp from the United States Post Office. Ursula K. Le Guin Is Getting the Greatest of Tributes: A Stamp

I watched this documentary last night on the BBC iplayer. There's plenty of clips of her speaking, and a lot about Earthsea. I always really enjoy listening to her. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bh0x and a review...

Hey, I'm currently reading all of the Books of Earthsea and, while I've moved past it now, I am still v v confused by a particular chapter in Tehanu. In chapter 8, the witch Moss and Tenar have a conversation that confuses the hell out of me. It eventually leads into a discussion about love...

Book 1: A Wizard of Earthsea When Karg raiders attack the island of Gont, the inhabitants of a small village are saved by a young boy who has discovered that he has magical powers. A sorcerer directs him to the island of Roke to there learn the ways of wizardry and controlling his abilities...

I've been wondering about this for years, but found this forum and thought I would finally see if I can scratch this itch! I read this book whilst at school in the mid-80s and really enjoyed it but never finished it. What I remember about the book is that the main protagonist is a young boy...

Turns out that Le Guin did a lot of Q&A with fans on how to write and its all here for people to pick over. Enjoy Navigating the Ocean of Story |

Tribute to Ursula K. LeGuin 6/13/18 - Video I was lucky enough to snag a ticket to the Portland Literary Arts tribute to LeGuin, featuring speeches from authors, her publisher, biographer, and others, including my favorite living author China Mieville. It was a beautiful tribute to LeGuin's...

The story is set in Portland, Oregon, in the year 2002. Portland has over three million inhabitants and the rain never stops. Most of the poor have kwashiorkor, a form protein deprivation. The culture is much the same as the 1970s in the United States but poverty reigns supreme. George Orr, has...

The New York Times reports that another of the giants of SFF has fallen. Ursula Le Guin an absolute master is dead at 88. Her work had few peers and she will be missed. Certainly "The Left Hand of Darkness" is a classic. Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88

Ursula K. Le Guin: A Blog (2016) Charles Vess Talks Slipping Into Ursula K. Le Guin’s Brain to Draw Earthsea Dragons Anybody else happy about this?

I had to leave "The Left Hand of Darkness" way back when I was in college, it was required reading for my science fiction literary course. I was highly there in class discussions of the book, because, as I mentioned to the teacher of the course, I wanted to sound out how my views on the book...

I need to write on this theme. I would like to read again a Science Fiction short story that I read as a teenager. I don't know who the author was. Maybe one of you will recognize the story and tell me the author. I would like to read more of his/her work. A scientist was investigating the...

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http://bookviewcafe.com/blog/2015/07/27/navigating-the-ocean-of-story/ Link via Andrew Porter. Quoting Ursula "I have enough vigor and stamina these days to write poems, for which I am very thankful. It takes quite a lot of vigor and stamina to write a story, and a huge amount to write a...