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Ursula LeGuin dead?
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Ursula LeGuin dead?
January 23, 2018 at 11:13 pm (This post was last modified: January 23, 2018 at 11:24 pm by chimp3.)
01-22-18? Should be major news!
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RE: Ursula LeGuin dead?
January 23, 2018 at 11:35 pm
This should be headline news and the date recognized as a national holiday!
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RE: Ursula LeGuin dead?
January 23, 2018 at 11:48 pm
Um... who was she?
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RE: Ursula LeGuin dead?
January 23, 2018 at 11:51 pm
(January 23, 2018 at 11:48 pm)Joods Wrote: Um... who was she?

I had to look her up.... don’t think I read any of her books.
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RE: Ursula LeGuin dead?
January 23, 2018 at 11:52 pm
Breaks out the pitchforks.........
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RE: Ursula LeGuin dead?
January 24, 2018 at 12:01 am
I really liked her Earthsea trilogy. RIP.
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RE: Ursula LeGuin dead?
January 24, 2018 at 12:47 am
Ursula LeGuin was a major science fiction writer. She was from an era where it was very difficult from a woman to be accepted as such.
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RE: Ursula LeGuin dead?
January 24, 2018 at 12:50 am
Ahh okay. RIP Ursula. Sad
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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.
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RE: Ursula LeGuin dead?
January 24, 2018 at 1:24 am
I also fondly remember reading the Earthsea trilogy quite a while back. I read she was a Portland native.
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