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I can't find the words to praiseThe Winds twelve quarters & the compass rose, which contains the first two major short story collections of Ursula K. Le Guin's career. When I read Le Guin I always feel a combination of striking novelty and absolute familiarity. So beautiful.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/71af6986-ab60-4127-8eca-dd699286f057

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The cover of Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Wind’s Twelve Quarters & The Compass Rose’ held up by a white hand next to a shelf of other Le Guin books

Lecturas Sumergidas replied to Lecturas Sumergidas's status

Creía #UrsulaKLeGuin en la #lectura como un medio para adquirir criterio propio, para parar “la corriente incesante, incoherente, confusa y chillona de los medios de comunicación”.

Ella es Nuestra #AutoraSumergida de Hoy.

https://lecturassumergidas.com/2018/04/30/ursula-k-le-guin-agitadora/

Lecturas Sumergidas

"Todos tenemos que aprender a inventarnos una vida, crearla, imaginarla. Necesitamos que nos enseñen esas capacidades(...)Si no lo hacemos nuestras vidas acaban siendo controladas por los demás”

#UrsulaKLeGuin,agitadora de mentes en este y otros mundos.

https://lecturassumergidas.com/2018/04/30/ursula-k-le-guin-agitadora/

Amici Is Me 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴

Need a bit of a break. Gonna start listening to Le Guin's "The Word for World is Forest". I've only completed one book in the Hamish cycle, but it was very impressive, and I've heard that this one and "The Left Hand of Darkness", are both also really good.

Trivia: "The Word for World is Forest" is the inspiration behind the "Avatar" blockbuster movies.

#UrsulaKLeGuin #Literature #SciFiBooks

Stan Carey

Revisiting this great collection by Ursula Le Guin. Her thoughts on human connection (from "American SF and the Other", 1975) are as timely as ever

#books #reading #UrsulaKLeGuin #fantasy #SFF #SciFi #ScienceFiction

Paragraph from Le Guin's book:
If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself – as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation – you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality. You have, in fact, alienated yourself.

Women's Press paperback edition of Ursula Le Guin's book "The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction", placed on a wooden surface. The cover is dark blue, with white sans-serif text (and, in pale blue at the bottom: "new edition revised by Ursula K Le Guin"). Design by Lucienne Roberts. In the centre is an abstract illustration by Fieroza Doorsen, consisting of various irregular shapes, in bold bright colours, overlapping one another, inside a white border.

Dresden S

#ursulakleguin #anticapitalism #literature

Fegere Piouh

Tenía pendiente comentar mi lectura de "Los desposeídos" de Ursula K. Le Guin. Así que allá voy.

#literaverso #CienciaFicción #LosDesposeídos #UrsulaKLeGuin #libro

Alberto Chimal replied to Alberto Chimal's status

Pienso en aquel pasaje y creo que tiene que ver (para mí al menos) con cómo lo que aprendemos a ver como bello y bueno puede ser engañoso. Esto no quiere decir que siempre lo sea, ni mucho menos que deba buscarse lo brutal y lo repulsivo por principio. Más bien, que la #existencia es compleja, profunda, y rara vez se va a revelar entera de un solo vistazo.

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#escritoras #literatura #citas #ficciónespeculativa #CitasLiterarias #UrsulaKLeGuin #LosDesposeídos #libroverso #belleza #fealdad

Alberto Chimal

Ursula LeGuin escribe en "Los desposeídos" acerca de "el silencio, el silencio absoluto" de la noche en Anarres, el planeta donde no existe la propiedad. Su protagonista se alegra de cambiar ese silencio por el ruido de un mundo capitalista –donde sí cantan los pájaros, se nos dice– pero su contento no dura mucho.

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iamanath

Hala, después de dos días haciendo horas extras como una cerdita, voy a volver a fantasear y pensar en #otrosmundosposibles

✨ Os dejo el enlace aquí al curso de @nocionescomunes sobre Úrsula K. Leguin y la ecología libertaria: del realismo capitalista a la creación revolucionaria

✨ Si queréis luego comentamos
#ursulakleguin #ecologia #realismocapitalista #creacion #nuevosmundos
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As useful as #LLMs really are for me, there's always this lingering doubt in my mind that it's not just pulling shit entirely out of it's own ass.

I asked #Gemini for #Solarpunk #book recommendations, and it gave me, some great one!

But then it started giving me books that don't exist in #Libgen and I have to wonder if they exist at all.

#ai #ebook #ecoSpeculation #UrsulaKLeGuin #environmentalism #anarchism #scienceFiction #sciFi #sustainability

Vladimir Poleganov

В чудесна компания сме и аз, и “Другият сън”. И е много хубаво да видиш някой да пише за Брънър.

https://ejournal.uni-sofia.bg/index.php/Colloquia/issue/view/15

#sciencefiction #dystopia #johnbrunner #bernardwolfe #ursulakleguin

RanaldClouston

#FinishedReading these 5 interlocking #UrsulaKLeGuin stories from the mid 90s, focusing on neighbouring planets whose societies are built around slavery, both race- and gender-based. These won't be for everyone because of their violence, particularly sexual violence, but it isn't gratuitous; that is how these systems are maintained. These are deeply hopeful stories about how human courage and love can eventually break down seemingly permanent injustices. #Bookstodon #SciFi @bookstodon