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...
Thanks for the ideas. I've written down those authors and am headed to the used bookstore! It's interesting to me that the books that remind me most of UKL's...
While I have been a member of the group, we haven't discussed Ursula's translation of the Tao Te Ching. The purests claim it is not the real deal but I think...
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Similar in many respects - the politics, anthropology, characterisation - but also different in so many ways are the works of B. Traven ...
Dear friends, You know, since I love Ursula's work in general, I was disappointed to find that I do not find her translation of the Tao te Ching a satisfying ...
An interesting and informative comment, Bonnie - I would like to read the Feng/English version, too. However, to be fair to Ursula, she doesn't refer to it as...
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Thankyou Cheryl. Ian i think you're bang on. Rhea. Ian Riddell <iwriddell@...> wrote: It's "The Magicians of Caprona" by Diana Wynne Jones, I think....
If it's not too late to jump in on this thread, I want to make a case for Marion Zimmer Bradley. While she's not in the same league as Ursula in many ways (who...
I hope it's not too late too! Everyone will have a different reaction to an author - personally I don't go for MZB although I have tried a few of them. ...
Hello all, UKL worked closely and for many months with a scholar of ancient Chinese language and literature in creating her version of the Tao te Ching. He is...
Dear Rhea, Le Guin shares her thoughts about Harry Potter -- and an astonishingly wide variety of subjects ranging from Dr Who to Lao Tzu -- in "Chronicles of ...
Here is the Le Guin on Rowling from the Q&A published in the Guardian: Q: Nicholas Lezard has written 'Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write.' What do you...
I recently read Karen Joy Fowler's novel 'The Jane Austen Book Club' (a good read) in which UKL's books have a walk on part. I don't think this counts as much...
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