The Wind's Twelve Quarters | Literary Qualities
Science fiction is defined differently by each person who reads or writes it, but Le Guin resists making distinctions between science fiction and fantasy. Even so, it is fantasy that she defends more wholeheartedly, arguing in her nonfiction writings on behalf of language rather than technology, of characterizing "the Other" rather than creating alien worlds, and of writing literature for children rather than for adults.
Le Guin is a writer of great versatility and power, as shown by the range of storytelling in this one volume. All her fiction is distinguished by careful...
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