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- A Travels Abroad story: Truly Shitty Celtic Metal
- What’s New for the 23rd of June: A special edition for the Solstice, Wales in literature and music, and yes, in film.
- A Kinrowan Story: The Oak King
- What’s New for the 9th of June: Some beach reads — dark fantasy, superhero romance, comic fantasy and teen aliens; Finnish fiddles, Swedish-American jazz, and an Earl Scruggs tribute, and a grab bag of archival music; glam rock on film; an Alan Moore tribute
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Tag Archives: Ursula Le Guin
Ursula Le Guin’s The Selected Short Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin: The Found and the Lost and The Unreal and the Real
I think the first piece of fiction I read by Ursula Le Guin was The Dispossessed followed closely by The Left Hand of Darkness. Sometime after that I read the original trilogy of novels that would eventually be seven novels … Continue reading
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Other Wind
Farther west than west beyond the land my people are dancing on the other wind. — the song of the Woman of Kemay Those of us who have voyaged in Earthsea have reason to rejoice that its creator, Ursula K. … Continue reading
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Tehanu
Rebecca Swain penned this review. Tehanu is the last book in Le Guin’s Earthsea tetralogy. It was published in 1990, considerably after the first three books. Although this book, as with the others in the series, has been classified as a children’s/young adult … Continue reading
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Changing Planes
Ursula K. Le Guin is an anthropologist of people and cultures that might be. Her book Always Coming Home is the clearest example; in it she studies a possible future civilization in northern California, unearthing stories and descriptions of architecture, festivals, healing … Continue reading
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness
Michelle Erica Green penned this review. “Alone, I cannot change your world. But I can be changed by it. Alone, I must listen, as well as speak. Alone, the relationship I finally make, if I make one, is not impersonal … Continue reading
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