Tag: Ursula K. Le Guin

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Community Remembers Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin (October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018)

Ursula K. Le Guin, Junot Diaz Among Inductees to the American Academy of Arts and Letters

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz

Oprah Is the First Big Name to Join the Cast of Ava DuVernay’s ‘A Wrinkle In Time’

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Oprah in 2009

Oprah in 2009

Ursula K. Le Guin on Power, Oppression, Freedom, and How Imaginative Storytelling Expands Our Scope of the Possible

Read Maria Popova’s piece at Brainpickings.com.

Le Guin refers to the words of onetime slave and poet Phillis Wheatley: “In every human Breast, God has implanted a principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.”

Cover of Ursula K. Le Guin's book The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Cover of Ursula K. Le Guin’s book The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

The Most Wonderfully Alternative Families in Science Fiction and Fantasy

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The Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler

The Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler

Check Out Shan Jiang’s Gorgeous Artwork for ‘The Man in the High Castle’

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Exquisite.

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Samuel Delaney & Other Sci-Fi Authors Talk Feminism and Genre Writing in New HeForShe Video

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Walidah Imarisha: Rewriting the Future

Imarisha discusses “Using Sci Fi to Re-envision Justice.”

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Salon.com: If Tolkien Were Black

Laura Miller writes about Black writers taking on a literary genre dominated by nostalgia for Medieval England

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