R.I.P. Ursula Le Guin (1929-2018)

I heard some more very sad news this morning: that Ursula K. Le Guin passed away on Monday at the age of 88. She was a great writer of science fiction and fantasy literature who was highly original and also highly influential. When I heard the news this morning I went through my bookshelves. I haven’t kept all the books I devoured as a teenager, but I kept this one:

I must have had this for 40 years or more. A Wizard of Earthsea vies with Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast as the best books I have read in this genre, way above the standard fare of the Swords and Sorcery genre. I must read this again in memory of the author, as I suspect will many others of my age who read it in their teenage years.

R.I.P. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)

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2 Responses to “R.I.P. Ursula Le Guin (1929-2018)”

vla22 Says:
January 24, 2018 at 11:51 am

It is an excellent trilogy, and there are now one or two more books at the end of it, which are also excellent (and also show some of the ways the field has evolved since the original trilogy was written).

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telescoper Says:
January 25, 2018 at 8:25 am

Thanks. I don’t know what happened there but it’s now fixed.

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