RIP: Ursula K. Le Guin

[thewayne]

One of the greats passed away Monday at the age of 88. I think my first exposure to her was seeing the 1980 adaptation of The Lathe of Heaven on PBS, which rates, in my humble opinion, as one of the best movies that I've ever seen.

She was quite a genre breaker and shall be sorely missed.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/23/580109007/ursula-le-guin-whose-novels-plucked-truth-from-high-fantasy-dies-at-88

Comments

[moonhare]

When my near vision went I found prescription reading glasses, then bifocals, worked quite well. Then I got ‘computer’ glasses, more mid-range, for work, but keep reading glasses for detail work or comfortable reading. Then my far vision began to suffer and I got TV range glasses. I now have progressive lenses but these still give me problems even after many months. Thankfully I have an eyeglasses plan.

[thewayne]

I suspect this is not the post that you thought you were replying to, but that's OK. My wife works for a university, and oddly, they've never offered a vision plan.  I worked for a school, and they offered one, and my current employer, even though it's a temporary gig, offers one.  I've never much benefited from one since my eyesight is now, more or less, permanently fixed and will no longer (theoretically) change.

[moonhare]

I must have had the wrong glasses on when I replied...

[thewayne]

LOL

[silveradept]

Gah. LeGuin always had a unique perspective of everything.

[thewayne]

She most certainly did.  While I like a good many authors, there are few that I genuinely respect, and she's definitely on that short list.