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Ursula Le Guin

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Post by Cass Wed Jan 24, 2018 3:54 am

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/23/580109007/ursula-le-guin-whose-novels-plucked-truth-from-high-fantasy-dies-at-88

Oh wow. I’m not a sci-if or fantasy fan, but I did like some of her books. She was a HUGE advocate for libraries. Many of my patrons are going to be so sad.

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Post by veya_victaous Wed Jan 24, 2018 4:24 am

I loved Wizard of Earthsea as a kid.

I still says she is a better fantasy author than Tolkien or Rowling

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Post by 'Wolfie Wed Jan 24, 2018 7:55 am

study

She was big (relatively speaking, for a S.F. author..) back in the 1960s, '70s, into the '80s...

I was never a big fan, only read a handful of her books; including "The Left Hand of Darkness" back in the 1970s, but I only dimly remember it, so might have to revisit it one day..

R.IP.  Ursula Le Guin.
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Post by Andy Wed Jan 24, 2018 9:38 am

always found her work a bit heavy.

I prefer the more thought provoking works of Joe Haldeman (The Forever War) and Jack Mc Devitt (The Engines of God series)
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