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Just finished reading The Dispossessed. It's my favorite of this volume. Probably, it's my favorite from Le Guin. @bookstodon@a.gup.pe
#ursula_k_le_guin #LeGuin #anarchism #socialism #captialism
what Ursula K. Le Guin says:
#Haraway and #Barad, sure, they motivate #stshub2025. But I hear a lot of #LeGuin, the accessible carrier bag. It carries quite far,
"this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were."
Not trumping “diffraction”—but it’s less freighting?
For our scifi book club we've chosen Ursula K Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness for this month.
The copy (publishing date 2018) I ordered from Waterstones has just been delivered. While waiting for my tea to brew I idly flicked over to the back cover.
Ick, a quote from Gaiman. That most certainly didn't age well.
"Essential reading for anyone who imagines herself literate and/or socially concerned or who wants to learn what it means to be such."—Library Journal
"What a pleasure it is to roam around in Le Guin's spacious, playful mind. And what a joy to read her taut, elegant prose."—Erica Jong
The Wave in the Mind by Ursula K. Le Guin, 2013
Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her
customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings.
Art is very important for socialism
Olen lukenut peräkkäin kaksi vallan mainiota kirjaa: Ursula Le Guinin Kompassiruusun ja Irene Zidanin Isäni appelsiininkukkien maasta.
Kompassiruusu oli itselleni yllätys, sillä en ole yrityksistä huolimatta aiemmin saanut otetta Le Guinin teksteihin - mutta nämä novellit ovat kiehtovia! Ja suomentaja on @titia 
#KirjaMastodon #LeGuin #Kompassiruusu
Book cover of the week #3: A Wizard of Earthsea cover art through the decades: https://www.patreon.com/posts/book-cover-of-3-121112085
I'm working through writing craft books each morning this year, and first up was Le Guin's Steering the Craft. I found the exercises on POV to be invaluable and appreciated that she didn't wave around formulaic story structure flags.
"No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggresion. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year. We've followed our road too far..."
— Ursula K. Le Guin: Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories Vol. 1 (LOA #296): Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / ... of America Ursula K. Le Guin Edition), p. 402
The meaning of patriotism @bookstodon@a.gup.pe @sifi@a.gup.pe #LeGuin #SiFi
"In 1982, an interviewer for a science fiction magazine asked Le Guin what she would do to save the world. She answered impatiently: “The syntax implies a further clause beginning with if…What would I do to save the world if I were omnipotent? But I am not, so the question is trivial. What would I do to save the world if I were a middle-aged middle-class woman? Write novels and worry.”"
https://lithub.com/the-way-of-water-on-the-quiet-power-of-ursula-k-le-guins-activism/
Just finished The Dispossessed by le Guin- what an incredible book. There are so many sentences that are so beautiful they moved me to tears. The story is so intelligent yet so human. It’s hard to believe such a philosophical/sociological novel could be this human but The Dispossessed is wholly both. It spoke to me of how our western society is deficient, and how it is beautiful, in a way that nothing has for a long time. It is a terrifying look at the human race; but above all, the book is loving, and I’m very glad we had le Guin to give it to us.
Taoing
The way you can go
is not the real way.
The name you can say
isn't the real name.
Heaven and Earth
begin in the unamed:
name's the mother
of the ten thousand things.
So the unwanting soul sees
what's hidden,
and the ever-wanting soul
sees only what it wants.
Two things, one origin,
but different in name,
whose identity is mystery.
Mystery of all mysteries!
The door to the hidden.
translation Ursula Le Guin
New peer-reviewed journal alert!
UKL: The Journal of Ursula K. Le Guin Studies is a peer-reviewed, annual publication focused on the work of Ursula K. Le Guin and scholarship on that work. The primary goal of the journal is to provide a space where a diverse range of Le Guin-related scholarship can be encouraged and sustained.
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