“There is no writer with an imagination as forceful and delicate as Le Guin’s.”
“Le Guin is a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller with the humor and force of a Twain. She creates stories for everyone from New Yorker literati to the hardest audience, children. She remakes every genre she uses.”
“[Le Guin] is frequently referred to as ‘the best of’ for all manner of things—like best fantasy writer, best science fiction writer, best female writer—all of which is silly, as she both defies and accepts all categorization. Her influence on generations of readers and writers, from George R.R. Martin to Jennifer Egan to David Mitchell, is as evident as it is impossible to overstate. Admired for her quiet daring, her structures, and her inventions, most of all she is revered for her sentences.”
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Copyright
Copyright © 2017 by Ursula K. Le Guin
Introduction copyright © 2017 by Karen Joy Fowler
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN 978-1-328-66159-3
Cover design by Martha Kennedy
Cover photograph © David & Myrtille / Arcangel
eISBN 978-1-328-66103-6
v1.1017
The illustration on page 154 is by the author.