Ursula Le Guin dead at 88

[MissB]

Ursula K. Le Guin, a longtime Portland resident who influenced a generation of writers worldwide and whose name became synonymous with superlative speculative fiction, died Monday at her Portland home. She was 88.

[link:http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2018/01/ursula_le_guin_dies.html#incart_river_mobile_home|

[byronius]

1. Well, crap. Loved her work.

Used to read 'The Dispossessed' to my infant son to put him to sleep.

[nolabear]

2. Oh my. A great writer is gone.

She gave me hope for women in sci-fi when there were few anywhere.

[shenmue]

3. Oh no! I has a sad

[Madam Mossfern]

4. RIP Ursula

She was the first female science fiction writer I read.
The Left Hand of Darkness.

[CozyMystery]

5. Mine, too. Loved the book, and generally dislike scifi, go figure.

[maxsolomon]

6. All Things Must Pass

Vita brevis, Ars longa.

[procon]

7. I like her books, the Earthsea series is still a favorite. Her talent will be missed. nt

[ornotna]

8. RIP Ursula

A favorite of mine.

[First Speaker]

9. A great writer...

...been a fan since *The Left Hand of Darkness* was published in 1969. One of the top ten books in SF history. Safe passages...

[Gothmog]

10. May she rest in peace

[crazycatlady]

11. Her series Catwings was a favorite of mine as a child

RIP

[TwistOneUp]

12. Aww, man! n/t

[classof56]

13. Oh, so sorry to hear this.

I've attended many local readings and signings by this wonderful, elegant lady. What a legacy she has left her readers! I highly recommend her books of poetry--"Incredible Good Fortune" and "Out Here", both painting lovely word images of my favorite part of Oregon, the Steens Country. What a treasure she was to the world of literature and especially her home state of Oregon. She will be greatly missed.

I say only this about the incomparable Ursula Le Guin--Oregon's state motto: She Flies With Her Own Wings.

Rest in peace, one of my favorite writers. And thank you for all you've given us.

[hunter]

14. .

Thank you Ursula K. Le Guin for all your wonderful words.

[Glorfindel]

15. A great loss. She wrote my favorite short story of all time

"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." Sheer genius. The world is a more desolate place without her.

[BobTheSubgenius]

16. I read Ms. Le Guin when I was in my mid-teens.

Even then, I could feel a....solidity in her writing that was noticeably lacking in the work of writers of less weight. She stood out.

[burrowowl]

17. RIP!

A great writer has passed but her works will not!

[califootman]

18. I fell in love with Left Hand of Darkness twice...

I read it the first time in my early teens, and loved it simply as a great science fiction novel.

After years of slogging through classics in high school and never really "getting" them, we got to read Left Hand of Darkness in my freshman literature course in college, and I gained a deeper understanding and appreciation for it, and for literature in general, through that second reading.

I am still not a great reader (that is my wife's department), but I have read far more than I otherwise would have had I not experienced that second encounter with Ms. Le Guin's wonderful writing.