Rebecca Campbell’s Arboreality Wins the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
After announcing the shortlist of potential recipientsof the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction back in July, the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation has revealed that Rebecca Campbell’s Arboreality, a...
View ArticleWilson’s Iliad and Le Guin’s Battle Between Good and Evil, or: How I Learned...
There’s a fight a-brewin’: On September 26th, Emily Wilson’s translation of the ancient Greek epic poem the Iliad was released (published by W.W. Norton), the natural follow-up to her 2018 translation...
View ArticleA Limited Edition Map of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Is Available, Just in...
The Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation and the Watershed Center for Fine Arts Publishing and Research at Pacific Northwest College of Art are partnering up to offer a limited edition map of Earthsea based on...
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On the Origins of Modern Biology and the Fantastic: Part 13 — Ursula K. Le...
“The unexpected is what makes life possible.” —Estraven in The Left Hand of Darkness The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) is about the necessity of perspective. In it, Genly Ai, an envoy from an...
View ArticleJo Walton’s Reading List: August 2019
The first week of August I was in Florence, then I was in Wales seeing family, then came Worldcon, a trip to Edinburgh for the Fringe, more theatre in London, and back to Florence right at the end. A...
View ArticleA24 Is Making an Ursula K. Le Guin-Approved Earthsea TV Show
At long last, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Cycle is getting the adaptation it deserves. Deadline has reported that A24 and producer Jennifer Fox will be adaptating the iconic series for TV, and unlike...
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Five Fantasy Books Steeped in History
“If the purpose of science fiction is to ask questions about where humanity is going, what is the potential speculative purpose of fantasy?” is a hyper-specific question asked by perhaps no one but me,...
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Behold Some Fantastic Fan Art of Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness
There have been some fantastic depictions of the worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin in recent years. The Folio Society produced some fantastic editions of The Left Hand of Darkness and A Wizard of Earthsea,...
View ArticleHonoring Ursula K. Le Guin’s Vision: Q&A With Artist David Lupton
Last week, The Folio Society unveiled its latest slate of books, including a new edition of Jin Yong’s A Hero Born, and of Ursula K. Le Guin’s utopian novel The Dispossessed. The publisher has been...
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5 Stories Where Nature Does Its Best to Kill You
The world, we’re always told, will last longer than we will ever do. Once the last human takes their final breath, Earth will still continue to flourish for millennia more, until the sun dies out...
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Exploring the Genius of Ursula Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle
Ursula K. Le Guin left us with a wealth of stories and universes, but my favorite might be her Hainish cycle. I recently read, or re-read, every single novel and short story in the Hainish universe...
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Introducing the Ursula K. Le Guin Reread
Ursula K. Le Guin might very well be the most critically celebrated author of SFF, beloved of both the literary and genre worlds—and make no mistake that these markets, their audiences, and the generic...
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The Left Hand of Darkness, Part I: Cold and Only Just Now Getting to War
A biweekly series, The Ursula K. Le Guin Reread explores anew the transformative writing, exciting worlds, and radical stories that changed countless lives. This week we’ll be covering The Left Hand of...
View ArticleJo Walton’s Reading List: January 2020
January was a quiet snowy month when I was at home, and I read twenty-five books, and here they are. A Discord of Trumpets, Claud Cockburn (1956) The autobiography of journalist and communist Claud...
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The Left Hand of Darkness, Part II: Love on the Ice
A biweekly series, The Ursula K. Le Guin Reread explores anew the transformative writing, exciting worlds, and radical stories that changed countless lives. This week we’ll be covering The Left Hand of...
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“Add More Goats” and Other Artistic Advice From Ursula Le Guin
“Ursula was everything you’d expect her to be: biting wit, wasn’t going to suffer fools at all,” artist Charles Vess told me over the phone from his studio in Abingdon, Virginia. Vess, a long-time...
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The Dispossessed, Part I: A Woman in Every Table Top
A biweekly series, The Ursula K. Le Guin Reread explores anew the transformative writing, exciting worlds, and radical stories that changed countless lives. This week we’ll be covering The...
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Library of America Will Publish Four More Volumes of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Works
Library of America has begun publishing more genre fiction in recent years, including the works of Ursula K. Le Guin. According to Associate Editor Stefanie Peters, the nonprofit publisher has four...
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The Dispossessed, Part II: May You Get Reborn on Anarres!
A biweekly series, The Ursula K. Le Guin Reread explores anew the transformative writing, exciting worlds, and radical stories that changed countless lives. This week we’ll be covering The...
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A Wizard of Earthsea: The Unsung Song of the Shadow
A biweekly series, The Ursula K. Le Guin Reread explores anew the transformative writing, exciting worlds, and radical stories that changed countless lives. This week we’ll be covering A Wizard of...
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Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact
Science fiction takes us to new social, cultural and technological lands, but often it also transports us to new worlds in the more literal sense, that of faraway planets rich in excitement and...
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Will Fantasy Ever Let Black Boys Like Me Be Magic?
My first book on magic was A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. It was a single story which expanded into a long-standing series about Ged, the greatest wizard known to his age, and the many...
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The Tombs of Atuan: Power, Ideology, and Becoming Uneaten
A biweekly series, The Ursula K. Le Guin Reread explores anew the transformative writing, exciting worlds, and radical stories that changed countless lives. This week we’ll be covering The Tombs of...
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The Farthest Shore: The Return of the King
A biweekly series, The Ursula K. Le Guin Reread explores anew the transformative writing, exciting worlds, and radical stories that changed countless lives. This week we’ll be covering The Farthest...
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Rocannon’s World: Where the Hainish Cycle Begins
A (usually) biweekly series, The Ursula K. Le Guin Reread explores anew the transformative writing, exciting worlds, and radical stories that changed countless lives. This week we’ll be covering...
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Le Guin’s Planet of Exile: Anthropological Speculations on Cultural...
A biweekly series, The Ursula K. Le Guin Reread explores anew the transformative writing, exciting worlds, and radical stories that changed countless lives. This week we’ll be covering Planet of Exile,...
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Five SFF Stories That Prove You Can Never Go Home Again
To quote Princess Leia, sometimes you cannot go home again. Why this might be varies from story to story… Perhaps home is unrecognizable, or has vanished entirely. Perhaps you yourself have been...
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Le Guin’s City of Illusions: Language and Trust on Space Opera’s Margin
A biweekly series, The Ursula K. Le Guin Reread explores anew the transformative writing, exciting worlds, and radical stories that changed countless lives. This week we’ll be covering City of...
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The Lathe of Heaven: Le Guin’s Trippy Local SF Novel About Reality
A biweekly series, The Ursula K. Le Guin Reread explores anew the transformative writing, exciting worlds, and radical stories that changed countless lives. This week we’ll be covering The Lathe of...
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Never Mind the Torment Nexus, Here’s Five SF Ideas I’d Like to See in Reality
Book Recommendations Science Fiction Never Mind the Torment Nexus, Here’s Five SF Ideas I’d Like to See in Reality Hey, tech billionaires—if you want to steal ideas from science fiction, start with...
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