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One of the #authors I studied on my #CreativeWriting course at #university was Ursula K. Le Guin. I only read one of her #books, which is a shame because she’s clearly a genius #SciFi and #FantasyAuthor. Does anyone in the #ReadingCommunity have any of her #BookRecommendations so I can #read more of her work?
I haven't read any of her novels, but her extremely inventive short stories "She Unnames Them" and "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" are among my all-time favorites.
She also wrote THE MATTER OF SEGGRI, one of my favorite novelettes/novellas ever, in which a planet-wide scarcity of men has led to women holding far more power, on their planet, than is normal for the interstellar society. It candidly shows the various things that go right and go wrong under such a system.
@ElisRowlands Which one did you read? The Left Hand of Darkness is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi/fantasy.
@surroundedbyidioms I read A Wizard of Earthsea
@ElisRowlands Her recognized masterpieces are The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed but I would also read The Telling and Lavinia. Those later novels are the peak of her craft IMO.
@ElisRowlands A friend of mine lent me a book of her novellas, The Found and the Lost. It was massive, a proper doorstop. The one I liked best was probably "Paradises Lost", but "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" was also very good.
@ElisRowlands I don't know which one you have read but the Earthsea Cycle is highly appraised in #FANTASY . I have also read The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed in #SF . They were very good and I hope you enjoy them too!
@ElisRowlands I picked up Wizard of Earthsea when I was in juniour high and didn't find it to my taste and never got past the 1st chapter (my taste at 13 was The Belgariad; I've changed.) Last year I picked up The Left Hand of Darkness and really enjoyed it, and then I read The Lathe of Heaven which was also pretty good. I'm staying with the stand-alone novels first (Left Hand takes place in an established universe she's written, as I understand things, but it works as a stand alone), but I'll return to the Earthsea stuff and see if my taste really has changed. :)
I'm curious about any other folks' recommendations, so I hope you get a lot of responses.
(edit: upon re-reading this, I need to explain that "pretty good" is an understatement. I really enjoyed them as the best category of SF, asking interesting and meaningful questions by evoking strange and marvellous worlds. I liked them. :) )
@ElisRowlands Her "The Lathe of Heaven" is brilliant. Or so it seemed when I read it decades ago.
I see no reason not to read everything she wrote.
I've read, and recommend, "The Dispossessed", and "The Left Hand of Darkness". I also liked "Always Coming Home". She did the EarthSea series, but I haven't read that.
I see she wrote much more than I knew:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin_bibliography