Praise for Ursula K. Le Guin's short stories:
"She is the reigning queen of...but immediately we come to a difficulty, for what is the fitting name of her kingdom? Or, in view of her abiding concern with the ambiguities of gender, her queendom, or perhaps--considering how she likes to mix and match--her quinkdom? Or may she more properly be said to have not one such realm, but two?"
--Margaret Atwood, New York Review of Books
She is a splendid short-story writer.... Fiction, like Borges's, that finds its life in the interstices between the borders of speculative fiction and realism.--San Francisco Chronicle
Ursula Le Guin's prose breathes light and intelligence. She can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory.--Jonathan Lethem
Like all great writers of fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin creates imaginary worlds that restore us, hearts eased, to our own.--The Boston Globe
Admirers of fine literature, fantastic or not, will cherish this rich offering.--Publishers Weekly
She wields her pen with a moral and psychological sophistication rarely seen... and while science fiction techniques often buttress her stories they rarely take them over. What she really does is write fables: splendidly intricate and hugely imaginative tales about such mundane concerns as life, death, love, and sex."--Newsweek
Le Guin's powerful work illustrates that fantasy need not be escapist, that gender studies need not be dry or strident, and that entertainment need not be mindless.--The Onion
Ursula K. Le Guin has published twenty-one novels, eleven collections, essays, poetry, translations, and books for children. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
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