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sweetloukillbot

(11,028 posts) Wed Jan 24, 2018, 12:38 AM Jan 2018

Prescient Words From the Late Ursula K. Le Guin

"I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being. And even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom: poets, visionaries—the realists of a larger reality."

We lost a giant today.

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Prescient Words From the Late Ursula K. Le Guin (Original Post) sweetloukillbot Jan 2018 OP

Yes we did! burrowowl Jan 2018 #1

Did she pass today? cilla4progress Jan 2018 #2

Yeah - she was 88. sweetloukillbot Jan 2018 #3

Cool. cilla4progress Jan 2018 #4

I found "City of Illusions" very good, and very accessible. Mister Ed Jan 2018 #5

burrowowl

(17,641 posts)

1. Yes we did!

Reply to sweetloukillbot (Original post)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 12:40 AM

Jan 2018

cilla4progress

(24,736 posts)

2. Did she pass today?

Reply to sweetloukillbot (Original post)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 12:50 AM

Jan 2018

I really wanted to read her and tried (The Dispossessed), but I couldn’t get into it. Guess I’m just not smart enough!

sweetloukillbot

(11,028 posts)

3. Yeah - she was 88.

Reply to cilla4progress (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 12:58 AM

Jan 2018

The one thing that is making it easier is seeing all the writers I know and love paying tribute to her across my Twitter and FB feeds. Earthsea is a wonderful gateway, but Left Hand of Darkness is her masterpiece (IMO).

cilla4progress

(24,736 posts)

4. Cool.

Reply to sweetloukillbot (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 01:10 AM

Jan 2018

I will try Earthsea.

Mister Ed

(5,940 posts)

5. I found "City of Illusions" very good, and very accessible.

Reply to cilla4progress (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 01:11 AM

Jan 2018

It's the only one of her novels I've read so far, besides "The Left Hand of Darkness". I liked "City of Illusions", though, and would recommend it.

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