RIP: Ursula K. Le Guin
Jan. 23rd, 2018 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneOne 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
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
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Date: 2018-01-24 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-25 01:20 am (UTC)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.