Hello Ekumenicals, Welcome to Paula and Joe and any other new members that have joined the list in recent days. Thanks for your participation and glad you ...
Dave Awl
dayvoll@...
Dec 18, 2000 5:26 pm
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Dave, Thank you for the reference to this wonderful interview of UKL. I really enjoyed it. I just joined the list (found yours, as well as LeGuin's World & The...
Joe G
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Dec 18, 2000 4:51 pm
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i'm kind of new here too, i joined a couple months ago. so far i haven't said much, but i've been reading a lot of the posts. i just started reading le guin...
izzy rubin
nebula009@...
Dec 17, 2000 9:31 pm
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Hi everyone!! i am new here, and would like to introduce myself.. I am 24, and i am studying to become a teacher of english literature and language....I love...
paula
paula@...
Dec 17, 2000 5:45 pm
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Hey Ekumenicals, I just found a great new interview with UKL on the Web. She talks about The Telling, feminism and Taoism, lays into Harry Potter, and makes...
Dave Awl
dayvoll@...
Dec 11, 2000 6:25 am
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... I think you could also apply the term magical realism to parts of it...although it's been a while since I've read it, so I'm not 100% on that. ... UKL did...
Dave Awl
dayvoll@...
Dec 9, 2000 8:13 pm
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And which category, I'd like to ask, is correct for Always Coming Home, which may be my favorite...? Anthropological fantasy??? But then there's Earthsea,...
jhyde
jhyde@...
Dec 9, 2000 1:44 pm
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... Hmm...the only reason I haven't voted in this poll so far is that I would need there to be a third option: o like them both equally Don't forget about us...
Dave Awl
dayvoll@...
Dec 9, 2000 2:28 am
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Enter your vote today! Check out the new poll for the the-ekumen group: Which type of UKL's books do you prefer: o fantasy o SF To vote, please visit the...
the-ekumen@egroups.com
Dec 8, 2000 1:37 pm
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Hey Heather, thanks so much for giving us all the scoop on the reading. Great info. Thanks especially for putting me out of my misery about upcoming Chicago...
Dave Awl
dayvoll@...
Dec 8, 2000 1:48 am
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I told UKL about this list, and she liked the name. (She's not online, so no chance of having her join us.) I'm sorry to report that tonight's reading was the...
heather whipple
kebbo@...
Dec 7, 2000 6:48 am
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... see ... Hm... I don't know if to me. I like the way she writes just because it makes so consciuos of words, of thoughts, of interpersonal relations! I do...
Surion Epeirodis
ventus@...
Dec 7, 2000 12:05 am
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... Hey Heather, welcome to the list and thanks for sharing the news! Sure wish I could be in Portland this weekend rather than stuck in suddenly-arctic...
Dave Awl
dayvoll@...
Dec 6, 2000 6:00 pm
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fyi -- if any of you will be in Portland this week, UKL is giving a reading at Powells downtown, 7:30pm 12/6/00. Heather in Portland, who just joined the list....
Heather Whipple
kebbo@...
Dec 5, 2000 5:56 am
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Hey Ekumenicals, I stopped into Women and Children First today (the topnotch indie feminist bookstore here in Chicago) and was pleased to see that The Telling...
Dave Awl
dayvoll@...
Dec 4, 2000 5:16 am
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... The Age of the Enemy is addressed in that first trilogy of Hainish novels--Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile and City of Illusions. I'm going to be a...
Dave Awl
dayvoll@...
Nov 30, 2000 11:04 pm
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Sometimes in the Hainish novels and stories, UKLG writes about "The Age of the Enemy." I'm sure many readers remember reading about The Age of the Enemy in Le...
D. Fabi
dfabi@...
Nov 30, 2000 6:19 am
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... Hi Surion, welcome to the list! I'm planning to re-read the Earthsea books sometime over the winter, so I'm ready if and when those new Earthsea books...
Dave Awl
dayvoll@...
Nov 28, 2000 10:22 pm
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Hail!, I've recently read "The City of Illusions" and "The Left Hand of Darkness" (having previuosly read also whole Earthsea). The first of mentioned books...
Surion Epeirodis
ventus@...
Nov 28, 2000 8:23 pm
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... I very much hope that nothing like that will ever come to pass. I certainly won't allow The Ekumen to be used for any kind of hostile or competitive...
Dave Awl
dayvoll@...
Nov 26, 2000 6:34 pm
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Hi all. As you might know I have this site called Le Guin's World (http://surf.to/le.guin/) It's been sadly neglected, but I'm going to do some work on it...
Fredrik Petersson
peson@...
Nov 24, 2000 2:04 pm
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... The Telling is technically a novel, then, since with 264 pages of 240-260 words each, it must have about 65,000 words. (It's still pretty short). ... I...
David Salo
dsalo@...
Nov 23, 2000 3:11 am
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...although we're gradually picking up members here, growth is kind of slow because Yahoo hasn't gotten around to listing The Ekumen yet, and it's still not...
Dave Awl
dayvoll@...
Nov 22, 2000 6:54 am
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Hey Ekumeners, ... Thanks for the tip on that. I'll try to remember to mention that when I do the next news update to The Ekumen Web site. I assume most of you...
Dave Awl
dayvoll@...
Nov 22, 2000 5:46 am
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Just telling all other Ekumeners out there that there is a fabulous Hainish story by Le Guin in the new Asmiov's Utopias paperback anthology that just came...
dfabi@...
Nov 19, 2000 1:47 am
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I've been an admirer of Ursula LeGuin's work for many years, since I read "A Wizard of Earthsea" as a child. I still prefer the Earthsea stories (all of them)...
David Salo
dsalo@...
Nov 18, 2000 8:50 pm
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Hi, Izzy! Welcome to the list. ... Don't sweat it. It's a new group, and there aren't a lot of members here yet. I think we can afford to be patient while we...
Day Voll
dayvoll@...
Oct 23, 2000 5:45 am
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i just recently signed up, and this is the first time that i've ever used 'e-groups', so it'll take me a while to get the hang of this. i'm very excited to...
izzy rubin
nebula009@...
Oct 22, 2000 12:46 am
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Greetings, fellow Le Guin fans. I see by the Ekumen Members page on eGroups that there are a handful of folks here now so I thought I'd go ahead and post...
Day Voll
dayvoll@...
Oct 12, 2000 10:25 pm
1
This is a test message, and the official first post to The Ekumen...for your viewing pleasure, the list description and list rules. ON THE NATURE AND PURPOSE...
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