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Ursula K. Le Guin resigns from US Authors Guild
Award-winning science-fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin has resigned from the US Authors Guild after accusing the organization of dealing with the devil in a ...
Sat, Dec 26 | from CBC.ca
Going, Going, GONE! Free Books, CDs, DVDs -- If You Act Within 24 Hours - ScienceBlogs
Going, Going, GONE! Free Books, CDs, DVDs -- If You Act Within 24 Hours blog) Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin. Cover art different than pictured on Amazon. Like new. Always Coming Home (California Fiction) by Ursula K. Le Guin. ...
Mon, Nov 16 | from ScienceBlogs
Traditionalist and libertarian themes in science fiction and fantasy: Part ...
Ursula K. Le Guin, renowned for her feminist and sociological SF novels, such as The Left Hand of Darkness, also wrote a charming fantasy series, ...
Sun, Nov 15 | from Enter Stage Right
Columbia mourns loss of Karl Kroeber
the United States from Columbia University in 1901—and the brother of famed science-fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Kroeber made a name for himself, ... and more »
Wed, Nov 11 | from CU Columbia Spectator
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Ursula K. Le Guin says science fiction is a literature of ideas. ST Joshi wrote a biography of HP Lovecraft, who he says was always interested in pure ...
Mon, Oct 19 | from KBIA
Family Story Times
Try out your trick-or-treating costume at the library at 10:30 am Oct. 28-29. All book clubs are reading "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin. ...
Fri, Oct 16 | from Hattiesburg American
What I Read This Month: August 2009
It was a very good month, as I read three books that I can highly recommend. Ken Grimwood’s Replay is contemporary science fiction that asks what if you could live your life over and over again (full review). I also reread the fantasy classic A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin and redisco...
Mon, Aug 31 | from Books Worth Reading
Opinion: Worth Reading: A Wizard of Earthsea
Related articles by Zemanta Beyond the Aryth Ocean: Part 1: A review of selected maps in fantasy novels (tor.com)A new island of stability: Ursula Le Guin’s Annals of the Western Shore (tor.com) Posted in Books, Reviews Tagged: Bildungsroman, Earthsea, Fantasy, Series, Ursula K Le Guin...
Sun, Aug 30 | from Books Worth Reading
Book News and Views
A new e-book publisher hopes to bring e-books to general readers (Boing Boing)Your racism is showing — a publisher puts a picture of a white girl on the cover of a book whose protagonist is black (Boing Boing)Ursula K. Le Guin talks about her fantastic novel The Left Hand of Darkness (The New...
Thu, Aug 6 | from Books Worth Reading
Old Favorite: The Left Hand of Darkness
Related articles by Zemanta Gender and glaciers: Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (tor.com) How Ursula K Le Guin led a generation away from realism (guardian.co.uk) Posted in Books, Reviews Tagged: Anarchy, Androgyny, Bisexuality, Feminism, Hugo award, Nebula award, Science...
Sun, Jul 19 | from Books Worth Reading
'Enchanted Hunters' by Maria Tatar
CA By Ursula K. Le Guin "Enchanted Hunters" is a well-intended book, but I'm not certain for whom it was intended (though it might do some real good in an education curriculum). Its argument is, I think, inept and often unclear, but it's at least lively, ...
Sat, Jun 13 | from Los Angeles Times
What Writers Know About Games
CA - Adam Saltsman We believe in the existence of people who aren't even become Napoleon. Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. - Ursula K. Le Guin, 1976 "The group of artists and scientists that had so far done least was the one that had attracted the ...
Mon, May 4 | from Gamasutra
Theories and Stories
Ursula K. Le Guin: “For fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it, too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, a...
Sun, Jan 4 | from The Hog's Head
Monthly Reading: October 2008
Other reviews of favorite books from around the blogosphere: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Book Lady’s Blog)Bird by Bird (Sophisticated Dorkiness)Clay’s Ark and Icehenge (From a Sci-Fi Standpoint)The Haunting of Hill House (Things Mean a Lot)Fragile Things (Yo...
Fri, Oct 31 | from Books Worth Reading
Worth Reading: Always Coming Home
I have lately felt overwhelmed by depressing world events, our materialistic culture and the problems we felt, particularly our environmental problems. This book offered both an escape and an alternative way of thinking about those problems. Related articles by Zemanta Worth Reading...
Mon, Oct 27 | from Books Worth Reading
Opinion: When Genre Zombies Attack!
Something woke her in the night." Genre fiction is rising from the dead to terrorize serious literature! In response to Michael Chabon’s (previously) new book, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Ruth Franklin wrote a review in Slate beginning with the line “Michael Chabon has spent consid...
Fri, Jul 20 | from MetaFilter
