In Le Guin’s story the world of Winter is a world unlike any other, its inhabitants neither male nor female. The construction of identity – of gender, race and class – is at the heart all of ...

The five stories by Ursula K. Le Guin with which this essay is directly concerned—Rocannon's World (1966), Planet of Exile (1966), City of Illusions (1967), The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), and "The ...

Ursula K. Le Guin's opus, in particular the novels of the Hainish cycle ... to coincide with those of the contemporary world. One would be tempted to classify them, and the four other episodes of the ...

It depicts a world of Kings, Queens ... Which would you most like to know more about? Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic fantasy saga, The Earthsea Cycle, is a subtle and nuanced masterpiece of ...

We don't have the power to contain this blight. Not because we don't work well.... It's just that that's the way the world is. And that's the way man is in this world. If there had never been the ...

On the Le Guin Issue. I have just read the Ursula Le Guin articles in SFS #7 ... she concludes "it seems that Grimm’s Law has entirely bypassed" the world of "The Wheels of If" (p. 56). There are two ...

the speculative fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin once asked. “I don’t know if our life ... NASA has a unique mission: to help us better understand our world and our universe. It’s a broad mandate, and ...

The Forest as Metaphor for Mind: "The Word for World is Forest" and "Vaster Than Empires and More Slow" Abstract.-- While Dick is a "romantic" writer whose energy lashes out in a profusion of ...

Writing in 1990, the late, great Terry Pratchett named Ursula Le Guin as one of the architects of 'the consensus fantasy universe', a world of 'dragons, and magic users, and far horizons ...

and mobi files -- of Ursula Le Guin's anarchist sci-fi classic The Dispossessed. A radio drama adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's novel The Dispossessed, focussing on Shevek's role in the story.