Ursula Le Guin has died
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Ursula Le Guin has died
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#2The music of my childhood. I read and re-read those novels.
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#3She was a fantastic author. I read her earthsea books as a child and I read much of her adult fiction later on. She has always remained one of my favorite authors. However, it seems that she had a long life that was good so I can't be too upset.
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#4RIP Ursula. I just finished The Left Hand of Darkness and am in the middle of the Earthsea series and it's absolutely fantastic. Love her writing.
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#5RIP :( i love every single thing she has written, particularly the earthsea books.
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#6So sad! I loved all Earthsea book.
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#7The introduction to one of the versions of Left Hand of Darkness is one of my favorite texts about Science Fiction: http://theliterarylink.com/leguinintro.html
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#8See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16218391
That has more votes at the moment. This looks like a better source, though.
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#9I am not trying to say that I was happy, during those weeks of hauling a sledge across an ice-sheet in the dead of winter. I was hungry, overstrained, and often anxious, and it all got worse the longer it went on. I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
—The Left Hand Of Darkness
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#10“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin