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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 7:25:43 GMT -5
Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like “The Left Hand of Darkness” and the Earthsea series, died on Monday at her home in Portland, Ore. She was 88. Her son, Theo Downes-Le Guin, confirmed the death. He did not specify a cause but said she had been in poor health for several months. Ms. Le Guin embraced the standard themes of her chosen genres: sorcery and dragons, spaceships and planetary conflict. But even when her protagonists are male, they avoid the macho posturing of so many science fiction and fantasy heroes. The conflicts they face are typically rooted in a clash of cultures and resolved more by conciliation and self-sacrifice than by swordplay or space battles. More... |
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Post by Cornflake on Jan 24, 2018 7:28:22 GMT -5
She was a gem.
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Post by AlanC on Jan 24, 2018 8:28:10 GMT -5
I will buy something of hers for my Kindle. Any recommendations for a first book?
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Post by dradtke on Jan 24, 2018 9:34:07 GMT -5
Been a while since I read anything of hers. Time for a revisit.
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Post by mnhermit on Jan 24, 2018 9:53:51 GMT -5
I knew someone in Mpls that read 'Left Hand of Darkness' every fall to prepare herself for winter. 'The Dispossessed' or 'The Lathe of Heaven' are the S/F book/novella I'd recommend. And after reading The Lord of the Rings, The Earthsea Trilogy is a refreshing breath of brevity and concise prose about as fully developed a fantasy world as middle earth. All her heroes are flawed, all her resolutions are, sometimes harsh, compromises,
RIP Ms LeGuin.
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Post by james on Jan 24, 2018 10:27:41 GMT -5
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Post by t-bob on Jan 24, 2018 10:37:35 GMT -5
dittoes......
I liked Lathe of Heaven book and movie also
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Post by RickW on Jan 24, 2018 11:00:23 GMT -5
I knew someone in Mpls that read 'Left Hand of Darkness' every fall to prepare herself for winter. 'The Dispossessed' or 'The Lathe of Heaven' are the S/F book/novella I'd recommend. And after reading The Lord of the Rings, The Earthsea Trilogy is a refreshing breath of brevity and concise prose about as fully developed a fantasy world as middle earth. All her heroes are flawed, all her resolutions are, sometimes harsh, compromises, RIP Ms LeGuin. Agreed. Any of her stuff is worth reading, but those three SF books are amazing. But it was the first Earthsea book that I loved most, and read multiple times. RIP. |
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Post by kenlarsson on Jan 24, 2018 11:06:59 GMT -5
One of my favorite authors. I was introduced to her in my 20's by an anthropology professor at college. Her father was a renowned anthropologist and my professor friend liked her books because he saw an anthropological perspective in her work. BTW she did an excellent translation of the Tao Te Ching with personal commentary that I still return to occasionally.
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Post by Cornflake on Jan 24, 2018 11:25:52 GMT -5
The last one I read was Lavinia, based on the characters in the Aeneid, which I've never read. It isn't really fantasy. I thought it was wonderful. It took about ten pages to quit being bewildered by what was going on but after that I loved it.
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