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.
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
―Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch