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Question Ursula K. Le Guin...

7 years 3 months ago #1 by Erisian
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    • Ursula K. Le Guin has passed. :/

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    Author of Into the Light, Light's Promise, and Call of the Light
    (starts with Into The Light )
    7 years 3 months ago #2 by Anne
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    • Well that is about the last of the authors I cut my teeth on...
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    7 years 3 months ago #3 by Arcanist Lupus
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    • The idea of individual immortality, an endless ego-existence, is more dreadful to me than the idea of letting go the self in death to rejoin shared, eternal being. I see life as a shared gift, received from others and passed on to others, and living and dying as one process, in which lies both our suffering and our reward. Without mortality to purchase it, how can we have the consciousness of eternity? I think the price is worth paying.

    - Ursula K. Le Guin, afterword to The Farthest Shore


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    7 years 3 months ago #4 by annachie
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    • Anne wrote: Well that is about the last of the authors I cut my teeth on...


    Me too come to think of it.

    A Wizard of Earthsea was one of my favorite books. Even had the talking book version at one stage.

    I remember photo copying the map to help with following the story as Ged moved around.
    7 years 3 months ago #5 by Bek D Corbin
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    • Harlan Ellison is still out there

    Still, it's been a while since he's been, y'know, Harlan Ellison, the Enfant Terrible of Sci-Fi
    7 years 3 months ago #6 by null0trooper
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    • Bek D Corbin wrote: Harlan Ellison is still out there

    Still, it's been a while since he's been, y'know, Harlan Ellison, the Enfant Terrible of Sci-Fi


    Not by coincidence, Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Word for World is Forest" was published in Again, Dangerous Visions , edited by that Harlan Ellison. Many of the contributors to that volume are still alive even if they aren't actively writing.

    I have to admit that the "Wizard of Earthsea" books didn't make as much of an impression on me as "The Dispossessed", "The Lathe of Heaven", "Orsinian Tales", The Wind's Twelve Quarters", "The Compass Rose", and "Always Coming Home".
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