Explore ten must-read books by Ursula K. Le Guin that highlight her mastery of sci-fi and fantasy, featuring compelling ...

Settings of 20 stories, all previously anthologized, include both the science fictional Ekumen, a community of worlds populated... Ursula K. Le Guin. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner, $14.95 ...

To the rest of the world, Ursula K. Le Guin was a groundbreaking author, winner of the National Book Award and multiple Hugo awards, as well as a Pulitzer Prize finalist. But inside a home on ...

Ursula K. Le Guin was ... but they are reflections of the real world. Publishing sci-fi as a female author beginning in the 1960s was no easy feat, but Le Guin stopped at nothing, paving the ...

The Forest as Metaphor for Mind: "The Word for World is Forest" and "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" Abstract.-- While Dick is a "romantic" writer whose energy lashes out in a profusion of ...

The five stories by Ursula K. Le Guin with which this essay is directly concerned—Rocannon's World (1966), Planet of Exile (1966), City of Illusions (1967), The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), and "The ...

Writing in 1990, the late, great Terry Pratchett named Ursula Le Guin as one of the architects of 'the consensus fantasy universe', a world of 'dragons, and magic users, and far horizons ...

Works like Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness expand ... Writers behind sci-fi and fantasy works ask themselves what their imagined world would look like if they pushed the boundaries ...

Ursula K. Le Guin's opus, in particular the novels of the Hainish cycle ... to coincide with those of the contemporary world. One would be tempted to classify them, and the four other episodes of the ...

In this development toward artistic self-consciousness the writings of Ursula K ... political anarchy created by a world where there are no worlds and the entire planet is, like Karhide, "a family ...

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