Ursula K. Le Guin: Difference between revisions

[[Ursula K. Le Guin]] iswas a prolific writer, and iswas most known for her [[Speculative Fiction]] novels, although she has also writtenwrote poetry, nonfiction, and young adult novels. Her works often explore cultural, sociological, ecological, or feminist themes; [[wikipedia:Anarchism|anarchism]] and [[Taoism]] also occasionally shows up subtly (she iswas probably the best-known Western Taoist and haswrote both written a commentary on and translated the ''Tao Te Ching'') or, in the case of ''The Dispossessed'', not so subtly (Anarres is an anarcho-communist society; but then again, the subtitle is ''An '''''Ambiguous''''' Utopia'', and a central theme of the work is that Anarres has decayed in the years since its founding due in no small part to ideology and bureaucracy replacing revolutionary fervour). Her works have greatly influenced modern [[Fantasy]] and [[Science Fiction]] authors, with systems, words, and ideas from her works showing up so often that some have become tropes in and of themselves. One of these was her coining of the word [[Subspace Ansible|ansible]], which has appeared in numerous scifi works since.

Her Earthsea novels have twice been adapted to visual medium. One is the oft-maligned SciFi channel miniseries and the other is the [[Studio Ghibli]] film ''[[Tales From Earthsea]].'' Le Guin has made no secret of the fact that she iswas [[Adaptation Decay|not particularly fond of either adaptation]] though she was rather more charitable towards [[Studio Ghibli]].