Le Guin

Jo Walton's obituary for/remembrance of Ursula Le Guin.

The first books I can remember buying for myself were the Earthsea trilogy; I don't know if I knew what I was picking up, but I still have those paperbacks (somewhat the worse for wear, but definitely still readable). At the moment I am also thinking of Always Coming Home, The Left Hand of Darkness, "The Matter of Seggri," and "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie." Ask me in eight hours, and the list will be different, but Gethen and the Na Valley are close to my heart.

It seems worth mentioning that at Wiscon 20, there was a staged reading/performance piece based on a bit of Always Coming Home, and I was and am pleased and proud to have been part of it. She came to the rehearsal (where she answered questions about pronunciation, of Kesh names obviously but also at least one English word); I had the chance to thank her for making it possible.

And a quote from decades earlier, which seems apropos and I think she would agree with: Don't mourn, organize.