Ursula K. Le Guin, who broke the artificial wall between science fiction and literature, died on January 22 nd, 2018 at the age of 88. An essayist and poet along with being a fiction writer, she ...
Her powerful imagination turned hypothetical elsewheres into vivid worlds governed by forces of nature, technology, gender, race and class a far cry from our own. Credit...Photo by Marian Wood Kolisch ...
When I’m asked by a Le Guin neophyte where to start, I rarely recommend The Dispossessed. I wouldn’t urge a stranger to leap into the deep end of a pool. Though the novel delicately explores matters ...