io9.com - 10/6/2009
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Is escapism the enemy of smart science fiction? Does escapism turn our other-worldly tales into inconsequential fluff? That's what people often argue — but the reverse is true. Escapism is a literary impulse, and escapist art is the highest art. I was thinking about this the other day, ...
A Discussion About Lavinia
vectoreditors.wordpress.com 9/9/2009 — A little while ago now, I pointed to Lavinia as being one of the best books I’d read so far this year, and suggesting that (since this year sees its first UK publication) it should end up on the BSFA Award ballot. But I didn’t back up my ...
Which Fantasy Author am I?
nethspace.blogspot.com 6/9/2009 — Via Andrew Wheeler , I found out that I'm actually Ursula K Le Guin. Who knew? Your result for Which fantasy writer are you?... Ursula K Le Guin (b. 1929) 5 High-Brow, -7 Violent, -1 Experimental and 21 Cynical! Congratulations! You are High-Brow, Peaceful, Traditional and ...
Evil Monkey on “You Like Us, You Really Like Us”
jeffvandermeer.com 8/31/2009 — Evil Monkey:
You can relax now, “we’ve” won the culture wars .
Jeff:
Huh? Who’s “we”?
Evil Monkey:
Ya know–SF, fantasy, horror. We’ve won!
Jeff:
Okaaaaayyyyyy. I thought we either ...
The word for “good reading” is “Le Guin”
scifistandpoint.wordpress.com 2/18/2009 — Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle has been a source of pleasurable reading for some time now; but alas, I’m quickly running out of new (new to me) Hainish books to read. After finishing The Word for World Is Forest, the only remaining Hainish material I have yet to read (as far as I know) is ...
The weight of time to come: Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia
tor.com 2/28/2009 — Lavinia isn’t a retelling of the Aeneid , and it’s better not to approach it as if it were one. There are all kinds of ways of retelling stories, and this isn’t any of them. Lavinia isn’t really like anything else at all, and it’s much the better ...
Lavinia Discussion
punkadiddle.blogspot.com 9/9/2009 — [ Niall Harrison, that tall man, has organised a fourway discussion of Le Guin's latest novel; the resulting exchange being posted four ways: Introduction -- Torque Control Lyric and Narrative -- Punkaddidle. Why, that's right here! Fantasy -- ...
Ursula Le Guin and Anthropology
sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com 5/12/2009 — There was an interesting profile of Ursula Le Guin in today's LA Times . Le Guin's parents were both prominent anthropologists, and their work has in turn influenced her own. Le Guin's early years help explain her abiding concern: Is there such a ...
INTERVIEW: Vandana Singh
sfsignal.com 10/19/2009 — [Editor's Note: A while back, SF Signal published a Mind Meld feature on Tomorrow's Big Genre Stars . Patrick at Stomping on Yeti has been profiling these writers and has agreed to cross-post them here.]
After what feels like forever, I was ...
BBC Radio 4: Ursula K. Le Guin biographical documentary NOW an MP3
sffaudio.com 4/25/2009 —
The now 80 year old Ursula K. Le Guin looks back on her life and career and the Ursula K. Le Guin’s website is hosting the MP3 file made from the March 17th 2009 BBC broadcast interview. Have a listen | MP3 |.
Writer China Mieville talks to American science fiction writer Ursula Le ...
BBC Radio 4: Ursula K. Le Guin biographical documentary
sffaudio.com 3/10/2009 —
Coming up on BBC R4
Ursula K. Le Guin looks back on her life and career…
Writer China Mieville talks to American science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin.
Le Guin was a trailblazer - writing in the 1960s, her series of books about the adventures of a boy wizard, Ged, included ...
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