Hi, I found Easton Press versions of "The Dispossessed", "The Telling", and "Four Ways to Forgiveness" at my local used bookstore for 30 bucks each. Needless...
... Well, in the Dispossessed, they're all covered with hair/fur--so hair color might be a better question. :) I don't remember the descriptions though. On...
From memory, in Four Ways to Forgiveness the slave class are "dust coloured" a base grey colour? varying from beige to purple tinged - could be wrong about...
Well... The Telling's illustrations pass the test due to the vagueness. The Dispossessed fails as the illustration feature distinctly fur-less people with very...
... Both Urrasti and Anarresti have iron-gray fur, very short on the face, but Urrasti typically shave their faces. That's why in the original version of...
I found some pictures of the illustrations for The Left Hand of Darkness and the Dispossessed on an Ebay auction if anyone is interested. I would take some...
... I checked: the Urrasti (or at least the Ioti, or at least the rich ones) shave all over, not just their faces. -- All Norstrilians knew what laughter was:...
Hi, I just found this community.....I've been looking for the name of a Ursula short story I read a while back, probably written 1970's- 1980's.... It's about...
... Hi - It's the Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. If you look back down our discussion I think we had a chat about it a while ago. Hope you hang around You can...
... This is probably "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" from her collection _The Winds Twelve Quarters_. It's also posted online in various places, in...
(UKL list some ... http://ursulakleguin.com/Index-Work.html ... Dang! I thought that one I linked to was legit. So, in conclusion, Ursula Le Guin's work is...
Easiest available ppbk is probably The Wind's Twelve Quarters, widely available new & used. (It has other great stories, too.) Peter G Stillman ... -- Peter...
has anyone ever come across a map of Le Guin's Orsinia? I even wrote to the dear Ms Le Guin many years ago and she personally replied that she wasn't quite...
With a related request -- Does anyone have a map of Gethen also? I'm reading the Left Hand of Darkness, and a map would be a great companion. Thanks, Nick...
Hello everybody, since January there s a series of new editions of UKL s short stories coming out by Perennial - HarperCollins Publishers. These pocket books ...
Satirical article from The Onion presenting horoscopes for star signs based ... OK, I give. Too much "winsome folk music": that sounds like me. Full thing is...
Hello all. I'm new to this forum, but not new to Le Guin's writing. I'm in the process of collecting all of her fiction works, largely from used bookstores....
Hello, Charlene, hello everybody - I can t tell you anything about authors similar to Leguin. But I can tell you what I did when the Ekumen went to hibernate...
Hey folks, It's been a long time since I posted to the list. I just wanted to say how excited I am that Ursula K Leguin is style writing stories set in the...
... The League is one of the Ekumen's aspects after the Enemy is defeated. Not all worlds are taken over; in particular, Alterra is not. -- Principles. You...
Have just been rereading 'Gifts' which my dear husband got from me through Amazon before it was available in the UK. I was struck by this passage: 'I recited...
... Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky. -The Creation of Ea (from "A Wizard of...
Yes! that's the one. 'The empty sky' how could I have forgotten? And there's an echo of The Left Hand of Darkness: 'Light is the left hand of darkness and...
I share your hunger for writing as complex as LeGuin's. I have started reading Octavia E. Butler, who is a very different type of writer than UKL, but who...
Hello Ekumen, I’m on a retro drive and I really, really need to remember the name of a book I read a long, long time ago. Not by Ms. LeGuin, sorry about...
It's "The Magicians of Caprona" by Diana Wynne Jones, I think. One of her "Chrestomanci" novels. widdy ... A boy will never be made to understand, of an...
Hi ekumen, I'm a new comer from China and just beginning to read UKL, for her works are rare,if not unavailable in my country.I have read some of her short...
In the genre, I have really enjoyed Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy - dark and strange and bitter and sweet. Outside the genre, completely different...
I don't know UKL's version but was introduced to the one by Ralph Allen Dale. It's wonderful. Barry Pegg ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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