I said this in the other thread, but The Left Hand of Darkness and Always Coming Home profoundly shaped the way I consume and consider sci-fi; a keen anthropological eye is critical to the genre and Le Guin exemplified the fuck out of it.

I know these were not her most famous, but they were always my favorite. My first chapter books and definitely cemented my love for kitties and fantasy.

Diane Duane was one of my childhood authors TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! And I just made my husband read Book of Night with Moon because he is such a cat person and nerd and, predictably, he loved it.

Thank you for the recommendation! I will read it!

“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” did it for me. The “needs of the many” vs the “needs of the one” in a way I’d never considered before.

I was a real snot-nose pseudo-intellectual teen and thought I was some hot shit for reading Brave New World, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and the Handmaid’s Tale when I was still in high school. Early on in university, I found a “Utopian/Dystopian Fiction” elective with all of those on the syllabus and was like ‘hell yes,…

Who are you to steal my words? I had the same life changing experience and by a sad coincidence i ordered them for my daughter and they arrived yesterday. The dispossessed and the Left Hand of Darkness. Oh god, she is gone and life is a bit less bright..

Annnd now I’m crying. I find your post to be much closer to my heart than all the others I have read.

The weekend after blchshitughnoxxEW was elected I needed to relearn how to turn the world off and from then on for almost 6 months I would turn to Le Guin. I haven’t broached her poetry yet, though but now I guess it’s time. She’s a genius and a polestar.

Such a big loss for the world—-I hope younger women are still reading her work.

Oh, man. The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia totally shaped my ethics when a friend recommended me them as a teenager. I am a totally different person because of them. I was blown away that she was the same author of The Wizard of Earthsea, a book I had loved as a child. Her range and…

Discovering her books truly made reading feel like an entirely new experience. I really loved her and while I’m deeply sad that she’s gone, I am thankful we ever had such a voice. I know this is a little weird, but I’m trying to figure out if there will be a public service. If not I’d at least like to send a letter…

U.K.L. saved my sad teenage life! Heartbreaking. May she rest in peace

“Drink more Gatorade, people!”

“She died of broken heart. No, wait. Broken cervical vertebrae. Me always get those two confused!”

He was like they are like my family, even though I do have actual family whom I have no desire to cultivate a relationship with but it’s totally their fault because Christmas cards. Also Brad has to be a secret mastermind to have turned his bland CW looks into such a lucrative career.

OMG the other dads refer to Brad as Zoolander. I’M DYING.

I guffawed at Karl’s bitchy remark about his sister - whom he hasn’t seen in 40 years- and the fact that her children ‘never even send me a Christmas card’. POOR KARL. No one loves you except Choupette and Frederic. (also- you just know Frederic is hoping to be the sole beneficary of Karl’s estate, but he will…

I really don’t think Karl has like, human emotions toward other humans. from the articles it reads almost entirely like he interacts with these people as literal favorite toys. he calls them “sons without complications” which i don’t think he means intercourse but the idea that if they displease him he can just drop…