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At FOGcon last week, a group of us did a panel rooted in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed that discussed what kind of economic systems might develop in the future. We did a good job of scratching the surface … Continue reading
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The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illlustrated Edition won the 2019 Hugo for Best Art Book, a special category created by the Dublin convention. This special book includes everything Ursula K. Le Guin wrote about Earthsea, including all the novels, … Continue reading
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), a founding member of BVC, blogged at her website and BVC. No Time to Spare collected many of her blog posts.
Continue readingA tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin was held on June 13, 2018, by Literary Arts, a Portland, Oregon, organization for and about writers. The program was recorded so that others can share in this remembrance. … Continue reading
While I was updating my Le Guin collection with the Hainish books I lacked, in preparation for my Big Re-Read of 2018, I also decided to pick up Ursula Le Guin’s last book, a collection of blog posts and essays, … Continue reading
If the first three books were milieu and setting, and the second (masterpiece) books were *absolutely everything*, the last two books on this list – while remaining “milieu” in the sense that we are in the usual Le Guin worldbuilding … Continue reading
In one sense these books are almost brackets of the Hainish cycle. The Disposessed is positioned right at a beginning of the regathering of the worlds into a body of union, an alliance, in terms of a League of … Continue reading
I embarked on this epic re-read after word of Ursula Le Guin’s death came down, and in the throes of that loss. It seemed like the best way I knew how to honor someone so completely unique, someone whose passing … Continue reading
I just re-read Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Telling, which is the last of the Hainish novels. I found the book very compelling the first time I read it and wondered why it didn’t seem to get as much attention … Continue reading