Popular Post Palantir Posted January 23, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted January 23, 2018 Oh No! I've just learnt that one of the all time great fantasy authors has died. Ursula K Le Guin bewitched my mind with the beautiful imagery and ideas of her Earthsea series. Time and again I have re-read these wonderful stories and now the next re-read will have an extra poignancy. The sadness of loss when a great creator leaves us is tempered by the magical idea that part of them will stay forever with us through their work. 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brayon Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 "It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end." - Ursula K Le Guin 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesSavik Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 You guys beat me to it. Here's NPR's article link: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/23/580109007/ursula-le-guin-whose-novels-plucked-truth-from-high-fantasy-dies-at-88 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Former Member Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Ursula Le Guin also explored gender and sexuality in books like The Left Hand of Darkness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rigel Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 I was always fascinated by the deep thought that went into her writing, probably not so surprising given that her parents, Alfred and Theodora Kroeber, were a couple of very famous anthropologists in California and she grew up with Ishi, the last Indian of his Yahi tribe, whom her parents studied. Always Coming Home was a completely fictional anthropological textbook her parents would have been proud of, and its greatest joy may that it introduced me to a tense in English I had never previously encountered, about a tribe that "might be going to have lived a long, long time from now in Northern California." (future perfect conditional?) --Rigel 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Former Member Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 3 minutes ago, Rigel said: …a tribe that "might be going to have lived a long, long time from now in Northern California." (future perfect conditional?) Sounds kind of like a discussion Leonard and Sheldon once had on an early episode of The Big Bang Theory. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defiance19 Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 She was the guest speaker at my cousin’s graduation at Mills College in ‘83.. She has a copy of that incredible speech. This however popped up on my Twitter feed today. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parker Owens Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Thanks for posting this quote from a favorite author. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northie Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 I use the singular 'they' all the time (I think my editor's just about accepted it now ... ). I'm glad to have such an august backer. I never got into her books despite reading sci-fi for much of my teen years. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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