"I'm a reader of science fiction and fantasy" - Margaret Atwood in Ursula Le Guin at 80 BBC Radio 4 17th March 2009 at 11:30
I thought at first (due to her accent) that Margaret was confessing to be a writer of science fiction...
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Happenstance: I'm holding/reading "The Blind Assasin" when I clicked this site, looking for new Buffy episode reviews.
And Le Guin's "The Birthday of the World" is lying not very far away
Cool.
I was listening to the Le Guin interview because I was hoping for inspiration. I like the idea of her work because it's science fiction/fantasy and she deals with sexism and racism but I haven't read any of her work. That's not quite true because I have started reading The Wizard of Earthsea at least twice and I've just not got into it.
What would you recommend?
I have The Blind Assassin on my shelves - one of my many to-be-read books.
"Entropy" is on its way.
I like The Left Hand of Darkness by LeGuin, but it took me a while to get into that one too.
I'm just halfway through The Blind Assassin, although I've had this forever because I tend to hoard books even if I have so little time to read. I'm loving it so far and I can see now why it's considered to be one of the best novels of all time. But maybe that's also because I tend to like literary fiction.
But, you know what, after watching Buffy, I suddenly had this intense urge to go into science fiction/fantasy and so I bought the Le Guin. I actually haven't started that one; after watching the movie The Jane Austen Book Club (which mentioned The Left Hand of Darkness), I made a mental note that I'll start with Le Guin.