“Here / is no away to throw to”: Remembering Ursula Le Guin through her thinking on language
In 2016, Arrival declared that the power of linguistics had come of age as a popular concern in sci-fi. (RIP, Jóhann Jóhannsson.) As in Story of Your Life, the Ted Chiang novella on which the movie was… Read more »
Two known facts: 1) Ursula K. Le Guin is a paragon, and 2) There is no such thing as an “alternative fact”
The greatness of writer Ursula K. Le Guin is well documented and pretty well understood. Author of such science-fiction classics as The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, the… Read more »
Support for Ursula K. Le Guin documentary blasts past Kickstarter goal into a region of space where other worlds are possible
Science-Fiction and fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin is pretty great. For example, when, in January, armed occupiers took over a national wildlife refuge in Oregon, she sent a strongly-worded… Read more »