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From an interview with Ursula K. #LeGuin in 2004

Q: As for #SF itself, why is it so dominated by right-wing politics? Is it the dark Campbell/Heinlein/Anderson influence, or is it something intrinsic to the form?

UKL: Are you only reading the old guys? Try #ChinaMiéville!

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/feb/09/sciencefictionfantasyandhorror.ursulakleguin

Half through Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea, my first Le Guin novel.

Really enjoy her writing style, the philosophy expressed in the book, the created world. Will definitely be reading more by Le Guin, including the rest of the Earthsea Cycle. Understand the popularity.

But, wondering if I'm supposed to have any positive feelings toward Ged? (who I refer to as Ged the Sh*thead as I read.)
I'd rather be reading a book about Vetch.

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@Lazarou A #LeGuin fan 👍 ✅

“I was in love with the book. In pure, ignorant defiance of the decree of the Iowa Writing School that controls almost all modern fiction, Galt tells without showing.”

—Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s ANNALS OF THE PARISH

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2/6

https://www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-john-galts-annals-parish/

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Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea predates Harry Potter by 25 years but tells the story of a young copper skinned goat herder gifted with magic, going off to wizard school.

In my opinion it's a jewel of a book, and the trilogy (later a quartet), are the finest fantasy storytelling available.

As someone once said "Rowling can type. Le Guin can write".

#LeGuin #UrsulaKLeGuin

You know what's a billion-dollar movie series waiting to be made? Earthsea.

Is there some copyright nonsense with it holding us back? Did the failure of that wrongheaded Ghibli version put people off?

It has everything #LOTR has, without the audience fatigue; it has everything #HarryPotter has, without the problems, including an escalating maturity and increasing darkness; it would succeed where #Narnia failed.

Why we aren't ploughing all our resources into this IP is beyond me.

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Been reading a lot, from pre-school through university to now, but I haven't read Ursula Le Guin. I haven't read any of that genre. Going to remedy that starting today with A Wizard of Earthsea.

I was expecting a bigger book, not sure why. Only 200 pages.

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Guten Morgen allerseits! 😀 👋

Mit Blick auf die Weltlage und die wohl von uns allen empfundene Ohnmacht in diesem Chaos hier ein wunderbares #Zitat der amerikanischen Schriftstellerin Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018):

"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed (1974)

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Foto der amerikanischen Schriftstellerin Ursula K. Le Guin

Friday - #art opening 6-9pm, Fiber work in response to #UrsulaLeGuin’s Carrier Bag of Fiction (or Art) essay (1986, tldr: human' crucial first tools were not spears, but bags)

@ Nave Gallery, #SomervilleMA (near #Tufts)

https://navegallery.org/wp/carrier-bag-theory-of-fiction/
https://stillmoving.org/resources/the-carrier-bag-theory-of-fiction
#ScienceFiction #LeGuin #CarrierBag #feminism #BostonArt #Boston #gather #fiber #BostonWeekend 28/x

When I came home, my copy of "A Wizard of Earthsea - a Graphic Novel" had been delivered.
I looks beautiful! Like properly beautiful.

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I have sadly forgotten who made this, but yeah, it tracks. #omelas #booksky #LeGuin #politics

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Political Spectrum

LEFT
-the ones who believe Omelas should be burned to the ground in the name of the child
-the ones who walk away from Omelas
-the ones who stay but work to liberate the child
-the ones who try to draw attention and support for the liberation of the child

LIBERAL
-the ones who hope to minimize the plight of the child
-the ones who are aware of the child but view their suffering as a necessary, unalterable evil
-the ones who believe the child's plight is inextricable from reality itself and believe others are childish and naive for questioning the necessity of its suffering

LIB/CON OVERLAP
-the ones who would rather not think of the child and are bummed when it comes up
-the ones who would rather not think of the child and are angry at those who bring it up
-the ones who are really proud their alleged utopia comes at the cost of “only the one” child
-the ones who assume the child must deserve it
-the ones who wonder aloud if we could upscale the whole thing for even better results

CON
-the ones who doubt the existence of the child
-the ones who say that they are in fact the sufferer and the child is their oppressor

CON/FASH OVERLAP
-the ones who wish to volunteer to torture the child with the blessing of the law
-the ones who think it would be hilarious to kill the child just for the fun of destroying utopia
-the ones who claim there is no child but if there were the jews probably put it there in order to appease the b

This morning's reading, nearing the end of rereading Searoad, 30 years later, she captures the mood of the coast so well

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And this morning I was up to light the stove while the children were still sleeping. The rain had stopped. I stood in the doorway in the first lught. I saw elk walk past going south in a line along the dunes. One walked behind the other, tall as tall horses, some with antlers like young trees. I counted them: thirty-nine. Each one as it passed looked at me from its dark, bright eye.

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what Ursula K. Le Guin says:

English:
The picture shows a drawing of an older woman, the author Ursula K. Le Guin, with short blonde hair and glasses, speaking into a microphone. She is wearing a gray jacket with a blue collar and a black top. The background is a dark, star-studded pattern that conveys a cosmic atmosphere.

Le Guin speaks in three speech bubbles. The first speech bubble reads: "WE LIVE IN CAPITALISM. ITS POWER SEEMS INESCAPABLE." The second speech bubble follows: "SO DID THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS." The third speech bubble ends with: "-ANY HUMAN POWER CAN BE RESISTED AND CHANGED BY HUMAN BEINGS."

The drawing conveys a message about the transience of power structures and the ability of people to change them.

German:
Das Bild zeigt eine Zeichnung einer älteren Frau, die Autorin Ursula K. Le Guin, mit kurzen, blonden Haaren und Brille, die in einem Mikrofon spricht. Sie trägt eine graue Jacke mit einem blauen Kragen und ein schwarzes Oberteil. Der Hintergrund ist ein dunkles, sternenbesetztes Muster, das eine kosmische Atmosphäre vermittelt.

Die Le Guin spricht in drei Sprechblasen. Die erste Sprechblase lautet: "WE LIVE IN CAPITALISM. ITS POWER SEEMS INESCAPABLE." Die zweite Sprechblase folgt: "SO DID THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS." Die dritte Sprechblase endet mit: "-ANY HUMAN POWER CAN BE RESISTED AND CHANGED BY HUMAN BEINGS."

Die Zeichnung vermittelt eine Botschaft über die Vergänglichkeit von Machtstrukturen und die Fähigkeit der Menschen, diese zu verändern.

Dopo aver letto #Ballard e #Aldani avevo necessità di un pochino di "speranza" e #utopia, dati i tempi che corrono, e ho iniziato "Il Mondo della Foresta" di #LeGuin. La nuova edizione di #Mondadori ha una bellissima introduzione dell'autrice su cosa significhi scrivere che mi ha migliorato la giornata <3
Bonus, l'edizione ha anche una bellissima copertina.

#Haraway and #Barad, sure, they motivate #stshub2025. But I hear a lot of #LeGuin, the accessible carrier bag. It carries quite far,

"this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were."

Not trumping “diffraction”—but it’s less freighting?

Una novel·la que parla de la desmemòria i la mentida. Tot embolcallat en l'estil meravellós que té Le Guin per descriure la naturalesa, imaginar ètnies i cultures interessants; i donar un cert transfons que convida a la reflexió. La part que m'ha paregut més interessant ha estat a partir que aplega a Es Toch.

#Lectures #LeGuin #RaigVerd #Ekumen

For our scifi book club we've chosen Ursula K Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness for this month.

The copy (publishing date 2018) I ordered from Waterstones has just been delivered. While waiting for my tea to brew I idly flicked over to the back cover.

Ick, a quote from Gaiman. That most certainly didn't age well.

#SciFi #LeGuin

The front cover of a paperback edition of The Left Hand of Darkness. Gollancz 2018.

The back cover of the book, with the expected teaser/synopsis and review quotes from David Mitchell, Neil Gaiman, and The Guardian.

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"Essential reading for anyone who imagines herself literate and/or socially concerned or who wants to learn what it means to be such."—Library Journal

"What a pleasure it is to roam around in Le Guin's spacious, playful mind. And what a joy to read her taut, elegant prose."—Erica Jong

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The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin, 2013

Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her
customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings.

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