Description: Praise for Ursula K. Le Guin: "One of the greats.... A literary icon." --Stephen King "Le Guin is one of the writers who taught me that beauty and fearlessness go hand in hand." --N.K. Jemisin "Genre cannot contain Ursula Le Guin: she is a genre in herself."--Zadie Smith "Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own." -- The Boston Globe "Queen of the realm of fantasy."-- Washington Post "Eloquent, elegant... insightful, funny, sharp... and nearly always provocative." -- The Washington Post "Her worlds are haunting psychological visions molded with firm artistry." -- The Library Journal "Her characters are complex and haunting, and her writing is remarkable for its sinewy grace." -- Time "Ursula Le Guin can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory." --Jonathan Lethem "If you want excess and risk and intelligence, try Le Guin." -- The San Francisco Chronicle "She wields her pen with a moral and psychological sophistication rarely seen... and while science fiction techniques often buttress her stories they rarely take them over. What she really does is write fables: splendidly intricate and hugely imaginative tales about such mundane concerns as life, death, love, and sex." -- Newsweek "Idiosyncratic and convincing, Le Guin's characters have a long afterlife." -- Publishers Weekly ss and risk and intelligence, try Le Guin." -- The San Francisco Chronicle "She wields her pen with a moral and psychological sophistication rarely seen... and while science fiction techniques often buttress her stories they rarely take them over. What she really does is write fables: splendidly intricate and hugely imaginative tales about such mundane concerns as life, death, love, and sex." -- Newsweek "Idiosyncratic and convincing, Le Guin's characters have a long afterlife." -- Publishers Weekly le science fiction techniques often buttress her stories they rarely take them over. What she really does is write fables: splendidly intricate and hugely imaginative tales about such mundane concerns as life, death, love, and sex." -- Newsweek "Idiosyncratic and convincing, Le Guin's characters have a long afterlife." -- Publishers Weekly ss and risk and intelligence, try Le Guin." -- The San Francisco Chronicle "She wields her pen with a moral and psychological sophistication rarely seen... and while science fiction techniques often buttress her stories they rarely take them over. What she really does is write fables: splendidly intricate and hugely imaginative tales about such mundane concerns as life, death, love, and sex." -- Newsweek "Idiosyncratic and convincing, Le Guin's characters have a long afterlife." -- Publishers Weekly

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