Mining the Genre Asteroid: Planet of Exile
Today on Mining the Genre Asteroid, I take you to a Planet of Exile. Last time on Mining the Genre Asteroid, I discussed Ursula K LeGuin’s first novel, Rocannon’s World. This time out, I stay in LeGuin’s Hainish universe and take a look at another early novel of hers set in that verse, Planet of Exile (1966). […]
Mining the Genre Asteroid: Rocannon’s World
When I say the words “Ursula K Le Guin and her work,” your first thought is probably either Earthsea or The Left Hand of Darkness or The Dispossessed. Or maybe you think of “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”. LeGuin’s oeuvre, however, is far more than those works. Even within the Hainish verse, there is […]
Excerpt from The Found and The Lost by Ursula K. Le Guin
We here at the Skiffy and Fanty Show are big fans of Ursula K Le Guin. At least one of us thinks she’s Nobel Prize for Literature worthy-good. So, today, we present an excerpt from The Found and the Lost, the collected volume of Le Guin’s novellas from Saga Press. The other volume in the recently […]
Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wellspring of Hope and Joy by John E. O. Stevens #monthofjoy
The literature of imagination, even when tragic, is reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives and therefore offers hope.” – Ursula K. Le Guin Joy is not something we feel in a vacuum; joy relates us to things, anchors us, unmoors […]
