[NEWS] Five links in memory of Ursula K. Le Guin

[rfmcdonald]

What can be said of the passing of Ursula K. Le Guin yesterday but that it has left the world absent a literary voice it needs?

• Cheryl Eddy at io9 pays tribute to Le Guin, noting her recent activism against "alternative facts."


• Crooked Timber pays tribute to Le Guin, noting a blog symposium there that had never quite come off.


• JSTOR Daily notes Le Guin's prescient criticism, in 1975 (!), of a science fiction that was much too retrograde, looking back to past empires and not forward. (That such could also be misogynistic was not a surprise.)


• At Whatever, John Scalzi links to his Los Angeles Times tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. Her influence is everywhere, he points out, in the rising generation of writers.


• At Wired, Jason Kehe notes Ursula K Le Guin's power to imagine alternative worlds, future difficult for others to imagine.