Ursula Le Guin has died

[Pemba]

I was sad to see on that Ursula K Le Guin, one of my top favourite authors, maybe the favourite, has died. Famous for her ground breaking science fiction and fantasy, she is probably best known for 'The Left Hand of Darkness', and her children's Earthsea series. Her books were just wonderful I thought, full of wisdom. She was still writing up til quite recently I think.

Just saw. An amazing writer, full of depth and mystery and a blazing fighter for fairness and humane treatment of each other.

So so influential in her time and such enjoyable, satisfying and rewarding books, too.

RIP Ursula Le Guin, you were great

And she won the Willamette Week's "Best House of a famous Portland resident to go Trick or Treating at" Competition in 2000 or 2001 (completly random but true fact).

Amazing author, I have many of her books, The Dispossessed and Lathe of Heaven are two more that have always stayed with me, although I haven’t read them for years. I shall be going back to them again now though.

88 isn't terribly young, but oh! I wish she had died at a more hopeful time.

She was and is colossally influential. One of those greats whose influence is really so broad (like Tolkein to fantasy) that it's in a way less visible for having become just part of the building blocks of science fiction.

Loved these posts by authors she influenced:

www.tor.com/2018/01/24/bright-the-hawks-flight-in-the-empty-sky-ursula-k-le-guin/

www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-leguin-scalzi-20180123-story.html

www.rosemarykirstein.com/2018/01/le-guin/

I might go pick up a copy of The Compass Rose. I read those stories in the library as a kid - they had so much influence on developing a love of science, as well as a sense of injustice.

Oh. That's a shame. Her fiction was superlative and waaaay before her time. A great loss.

She would have been wonderful to sit and chat with or go for a walk with

I didn't realise until seeing a comment from Neil Gaiman about how being chided by her was better than gushing praise from anyone else, that she'd been writing reviews for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/profile/ursula-k-le-guin-contributor