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lot of testimonials and essays getting posted, of course. Scalzi: http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-leguin-scalzi-20180123-story.html Jo Walton: https://www.tor.com/2018/01/24/bright-the-hawks-flight-in-the-empty-sky-ursula-k-le-guin/ quote:“Only in silence the word, Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Jan 24, 2018 |
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A kickstarter-backed documentary film on Le Guin finished filming recently: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arwencurry/worlds-of-ursula-k-le-guin/updates
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Mne nravitsya posted:Very sad that she is gone. I loved her way with words She also wrote a creative writing textbook: https://www.amazon.com/Steering-Craft-Exercises-Discussions-Navigator/dp/0933377460
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Tor.com is collating remembrances here: https://www.tor.com/2018/01/24/the-science-fiction-and-fantasy-community-remembers-ursula-k-le-guin/
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Jedit posted:Yes? It's not much more than the Heroes Journey again, albeit very well done. But the fact that it was multi-racial and white guys were the baddies in 1968 is important. I'd say "important" and even "revolutionary" but as to "interesting" I'd set a number of other aspects of the Earthsea books above it. First off is always her prose, spare and elegant, and at moments flashing, like the best parts of the King James Bible; past that, while the Earthsea books don't really show much of her economic or political thought, there's almost as much of Taoism to explore in Earthsea as there is catholicism to explore in Tolkien. And then, of course, gender issues all through. Skin color is a neat detail (from the very beginning, white people are loving things up and invading!) but isn't treated in the same depth. You could probably do a good series of compare and contrast papers analyzing the Earthsea books as a response to Tolkien's catholicism (or to the pervasive "battle of Good vs Evil" in most fantasy generally) and The Dispossessed as a response to Heinlein's libertarianism (or to the libertarianism of "Golden Age" SF generally). Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/belledejour_uk/status/956187596215926785
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Dramatika posted:I just read the first two Earthsea books for the first time, and they were fantastic. I'm sad I never read her stuff while she was still alive don't stop now!
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Dramatika posted:I didn't have the third one prepurchased on my Kindle and started on Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy on my flight. Should I suspend that and get back on the Earthsea? Maybe after I finish the first book? https://twitter.com/nkjemisin/status/955935985199714304
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Speaking of her sound: https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/03/...of%20the%20Kesh
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:So, shamefully, I've never read any LeGuinn. Where should I even start? Depends on what you're looking for but the original three Earthsea books are probably the best general starting place. Read The Dispossessed if you always wanted to read a Communist version of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Read Left Hand of Darkness if you want gender discourse in your sci-fi.
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