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Ursula Le Guin has died The greats are going away

#1 stone monkey

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Posted 23 January 2018 - 11:40 PM

Just reported

https://www.nytimes....dead-at-88.html

One of the true giants and not just of feminist sf & fantasy, but sf & fantasy and literature in general imo. A world without her is less magical.

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Posted 24 January 2018 - 12:08 AM

Aw man. Looking for reactions to this, I saw EW has a recent interview with her that's really lovely, about books that mean a lot to her: http://ew.com/books/...oks-of-my-life/

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Posted 24 January 2018 - 12:47 AM

I've never gotten round to reading her stuff. Perhaps it's time.

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Posted 24 January 2018 - 01:24 AM

Heartbreaking.

I finished The Eye of The Heron a few weeks ago. It was compelling.

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Posted 24 January 2018 - 07:18 AM

When the arrow is on the bow, it has to go

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Posted 24 January 2018 - 07:53 AM

This is really sad

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Posted 24 January 2018 - 09:58 AM

Dang I remember reading the Earthsea Quartet years and years ago. Really fantastic series that was instrumental in my love of fantasy, almost as much as someone like Tolkien was.

Saddened to hear of her death.

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Posted 24 January 2018 - 10:23 AM

Damn. I read the original Earthsea trilogy back in high school and haven't really read anything else I would consider similar since.

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Posted 24 January 2018 - 10:49 AM

Earthsea quartet was possibly some of my earliest, maybe the earliest fantasy I ever read. I think a friend had it as a setwork but he liked it so much he gave it to me to read.

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Posted 24 January 2018 - 10:51 AM

A huge loss. Earthsea was fairly new when I read the first book, and it was a big inspiration.

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Posted 24 January 2018 - 11:20 AM

I read Earthsea fairly late (only three years or so ago), but it's definitely one of the most original YA stuff out there, even today.

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Posted 24 January 2018 - 08:32 PM

I read this for the first time last night on recommendation (Omelas short story) and it's incredible. https://www.utilitar...m/nu/omelas.pdf

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Posted 24 January 2018 - 09:02 PM

worry, on 24 January 2018 - 08:32 PM, said:

I read this for the first time last night on recommendation (Omelas short story) and it's incredible. https://www.utilitar...m/nu/omelas.pdf

This is sad news.

I barely remember earthsea I was so young when I read it! It guided me to AsoIF and eventually the MBotF.

Those who walk away from Omelas was a moving story, one of the greatest Sci-fi works to mind along with Flowers for Algernon and Gold.

She also has a novel that inspired James Camerons Avatar, ‘The word for earth is Forrest’ I think its called.

I think I might spend next month trying to put together a collection. May her soul rest in peace.

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Posted 24 January 2018 - 09:26 PM

Very sad. Oddly, I've read Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness, and both missed the mark for me; though I was surprised how much I enjoyed Rocannon's World. I was between books when I heard the news, and immediately open up my Kindle and threw The Dispossessed into my "currently reading" folder.

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