RE: Ursula LeGuin dead?
January 24, 2018 at 1:17 am
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2018 at 1:17 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Weird twist of fate, she went to high school with Philip K Dick and they both listed each other as major influences on each others work..though they didn;t know each other at the time. She ended up taking him to task on his deteriorating mental state and how that expressed itself in the declining quality of his female characters (more accurately how they were being reduced to qualities with no woman left in there anymore). This lead to a vast improvement. The two being most present in each others fiction in Lathe of Heaven (for LeGuin) and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (Dick).
She said she stole his tricks, he said he'd never have discovered a defining character without her. Both fuckin giants.
She said she stole his tricks, he said he'd never have discovered a defining character without her. Both fuckin giants.
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