Great loss. It's hard to name one's favorite book *ever* but people do ask. I usually waver between saying The Dispossessed or the Left Hand of Darkness—both hers. Ursula K. LeGuin was a great American novelist with such great range and imagination. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html …
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Here's something that may bring a smile. The rejection letter for The Left Hand of Darkness.https://twitter.com/LettersOfNote/status/955938242427269122 …
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In the interview, she names what she does as “imaginative fiction”. That’s it. That’s so much better than science fiction, fantasy or just novelist—she was more than all that, a true boundary breaker.https://twitter.com/magpiekilljoy/status/955972843799490565 …
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YES. A champion of the imagination. She inspired the brief I filed for the formidable
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