Ursula Le Guin

The Wild Girls

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Ursula K. Le Guin is the one modern science fiction author who truly needs no introduction. In the half century since The Left Hand of Darkness, her works have changed not only the face but the tone and the agenda of SF, introducing themes of gender, race, socialism, and anarchism, all the while thrilling readers with trips to strange (and strangely familiar) new worlds. She is our exemplar of what fantastic literature can and should be about.

Her Nebula winner The Wild Girls, newly revised and presented here in book form for the first time, tells of two captive “dirt children” in a society of sword and silk, whose determination to enter “that possible even when unattainable space in which there is room for justice” leads to a violent and loving end.

Plus: Le Guin’s scandalous and scorching Harper’s essay, “Staying Awake While We Read,” (also collected here for the first time) which demolishes the pretensions of corporate publishing and the basic assumptions of capitalism as well. And of course our Outspoken Interview, which promises to reveal the hidden dimensions of America’s best-known SF author. And delivers.
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99 printed pages
Original publication
2011
Publication year
2011
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Quotes

  • Ofelia Rhas quoted2 years ago
    The Next War

    It will take place,
    it will take time,
    it will take life,
    and waste them.
  • Ofelia Rhas quoted2 years ago
    Peace Vigils

    My friend, self, fool,
    have you been standing
    with a lighted candle
    for five years
    in the rain?
    What for?
    I guess to show
    a candle can keep burning
    in the rain
  • Julieta Delgadohas quoted3 years ago
    have you been standing
    with a lighted candle
    for five years
    in the rain?
    What for?
    I guess to show
    a candle can keep burning
    in the rain.

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