Ursula K Le Guin: The 'fearless' author who showed us different MEdia Dragons...
Ursula K. Le Guin on Housman's Classic Poem “From Far”
King, Gaiman, Others Remember Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin's passing has left a hole in the world of fantasy fiction, and some of its biggest names are paying tribute.
Unwilling to terrify these vulnerable people, I told Virginia to tell them sure, that’s fine. Playboy thanked us with touching gratitude. Then, after a couple of weeks, they asked for an author biography.Yessss. BTW, if you’re wondering where to start with Le Guin, both the NYPL and Jo Walton at Tor recommend A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness, the description of which reads:
At once, I saw the whole panorama of U.K.’s life as a gaucho in Patagonia, a stevedore in Marseilles, a safari leader in Kenya, a light-heavyweight prizefighter in Chicago, and the abbot of a Coptic monastery in Algeria.
We’d tricked them slightly, though, and I didn’t want to continue the trickery. But what could I say? “He is a housewife and the mother of three children”?
I wrote, “It is commonly suspected that the writings of U.K. Le Guin are not actually written by U.K. Le Guin, but by another person of the same name.”
Game to the last, Playboy printed that. And my husband and I bought a red VW bus, cash down, with the check.
A lone human ambassador is sent to Winter, an alien world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants can change their gender whenever they choose. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters…
Speaking of other planets, 'Neighbour from hell' Maree Crabtree 'run out of town' before alleged murders
Maree Mavis Crabtree was the "neighbour from hell" who "caused havoc" on the tiny Upper Hunter community of McCullys Gap before she was finally "run out of town".