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Much of Ursula Le Guin's middle-period work, especially some of the stories collected in The Compass Rose (in particular, "The Diary of the Rose," "The Eye Altering," and "The New Atlantis")

What's Your Favorite Slipstream Story? 2010

I'm unclear Le Guin's words would otherwise be described pejoratively.

SF Tidbits for 12/24/09 2009

VS: I can't pick just one thing because my mind doesn't work that way, but I'll restrict myself to two things: Ursula Le Guin's novel Lavinia and Carolyn Ives Gilman's novella Arkfall.

INTERVIEW: Vandana Singh 2009

Unless supremely advanced Kardashev III level aliens seeded the galaxy like the Hainish in Ursula Le Guin's Ekumen, this life will be an independent genesis, enabling biologists to define which requirements for life are universal and which are parochial.

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Once Again With Feeling: The Planets of Gliese 581 Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010

Holly Phillips 'elegiac, fine-grained "Summer Ice" is reminiscent of Le Guin's non-speculative fiction and would hold its own in a literary fiction venue.

[GUEST REVIEW] Athena Andreadis Reviews Shine: An Anthology of Near-Future Optimistic Science Fiction, edited by Jetse de Vries 2010

I don't know about Le Guin's lawyers, but I think Ben Bova ought to be keeping an eye on this.

Trailer: Avatar 2009

Just as long as your five includes Le Guin's novel.

MIND MELD: The Hugo Awards - Success at Picking the Best, How Well it Represents the Genre, 2009 Predictions & Overlooked Titles 2009

Not the signatures themselves, but the article I linked should link on to a PDF where you can find the names of all the signatories to Le Guin's petition.

No Foolin' grrm 2010

Hard To Be A God and Prisoners of Power (a.k.a. The Inhabited Island, soon to be a major Russian motion picture) are dieselpunk planetary romances that read like stories from the early days of Iain Banks 'Culture, or le Guin's Ekumen -- without the Culture's overwhelming technological advantage or the Ekumen's quiet moral certitude.

MIND MELD: The Forgotten Books of SF/F/H 2009

Unless supremely advanced Kardashev III level aliens seeded the galaxy like the Hainish in Ursula Le Guin's Ekumen, this life will be an independent genesis, enabling biologists to define which requirements for life are universal and which are parochial.

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Once Again With Feeling: The Planets of Gliese 581 Ph.D. Athena Andreadis 2010