Sorry, Ursula K. Le Guin
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Sorry, Ursula K. Le Guin
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Rest in peace to a fantastic Sci Fi writer.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Left Hand of Darkness. Good stuff.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
RIP
Thanks for sharing an amazing imagination with us.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed are two of my favorite sci-fi novels. I've read other books by her, and liked them, but didn't love them like I love these. Still, she was a great writer and will be greatly missed in the sci-fi world.
Bill
'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas' left a lasting impression on me.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
One of my favorite authors. I met her at Powell's books once, decades ago! Off with dragons now, RIP!
"Always ready with the ray of sunshine"
A great for sure.
R.I.P.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.
Really sad news. She was definitely imaginative and influential. Gave us a lot of writings to enjoy.
Leguin is a writer I wanted to like when I was 13 and 14. I started The Beginning Place but put it down about a fourth the way through. The Left Hand of Darkness was interesting at first but also stopped about a third way in since nothing interesting happened and thought there were too many alien words which I found distracting. I should probably try the Earthsea series.
Eulogy: For One Who Went Gentle
I shall not pray for Ursula Le Guin.
She held no faith in any gods. But still,
Her stories always got beneath my skin.
She wrote more of imbalance, less of sin;
And how rejecting truth will make us ill.
I shall not pray for Ursula Le Guin.
She could have writ of pickles in a bin,
And kept us all entranced: such was her skill.
Her stories always got beneath my skin.
Her words were always neater than a pin,
One crafted fine on Hermes' own anvil:
I shall not pray for Ursula Le Guin.
She never wrote of spacecraft made of tin,
She sought to make us think, and not to thrill.
Her stories always got beneath my skin.
Her voice grew thin, but steady, stern, and still
Reminding us art's not for pimps and shills.
Her stories always got beneath my skin:
I shall not pray for Ursula Le Guin.
(Alameda, January 2018)
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
RIP my dear lady, here's hoping you're sailing the Earthsea
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