Ursula K. Le Guin

Type: Person

Name: Ursula K. Le Guin

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Slaying Dragons

In 1954, soon after publishing the first volume of his Lord of the Rings trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien received a letter from Peter Hastings, manager of a Roman Catholic bookshop in Oxford. Hastings suggested that Tolkien was “over-stepping the bounds of a ... [Published TheWalrus.ca - May 14 2013]

Entities: JRR Tolkien, Robert Jordan, Song of Ice, Mercedes Lackey

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Ursula Le Guin's 'The Left Hand of Darkness' Takes the Stage at the Portland Playhouse

Think Out Loud visited the Portland Playhouse to talk with Ursula K. Le Guin about the new stage adaptation of her famed sci-fi novel The Left Hand of Darkness . Watch a video clip from the interview to hear what Le Guin thinks about social constructions ... [Published Oregon Public Broadcasting - May 13 2013]

Entities: Ursula K. Le Guin, Adaptation

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

May 10-16: Wonderful Features

Also in Free Will AstrologyMay 3-9: Alternate IdentitiesApril 26-May 2: Good OmenApril 19-25: Imminent DeliveryApril 12-18: The Holy SpiritApril 5-11: Wild & TimelessMarch 29-April 4: Astrological GestaltMarch 22-28: Instant of LoveMarch 15-21: Melodies ... [Published Salt Lake City Weekly - May 10 2013]

Entities: Charlie Parker, Libra, Scorpio Ltd

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Werewolves, Cheap Wine, and a Pseudotreatise of Urbogony

• Benjamin Percy is the author of Red Moon , which is a novel about werewolves. He's interviewed by local author Jonathan Evison, whose very good novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving is out in paperback, at Elliott Bay Book Company tonight. ... [Published The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper - May 09 2013]

Entities: Cheap, Benjamin Percy, Eric Drexler, Jonathan Evison, Mariano Martín

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Locus Awards 2013 ballot announced: a guide to the best sf/f in 2013

The 2013 Locus Awards final ballot has been announced, and as ever, it is a fabulous guide signposting some of the very best work published science fiction and fantasy in the past year -- a perfect place to start your explorations of the year's books. ... [Published Boing Boing - May 09 2013]

Entities: Elizabeth Bear, Jonathan Strahan, United Kingdom

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame

Fantasy eye candy at EMP brings film, literary worlds to life

It seems like such a good idea for a pop culture exhibit: the Western fascination with fantasy that began with medieval dragons and hasnt stopped yet. But while Fantasy: Worlds of Myth and Magic, which just opened at Seattles Experience Music Project, ... [Published Tacoma News Tribune - May 03 2013]

Entities: JRR Tolkien, Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Mu..., Witchcraft, Terry Brooks, The Brothers Grimm

First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

Sacred Heart students, professor participate in English conference

Sacred Heart University students, from left, Felicia Carlini, Kimberly Nania, Jennifer Sant Anna, Christina Lee and Deanna Stocker, attended the Sigma Tau Delta annual conference.Several Sacred Heart University students and their English professor, Pamela ... [Published Fairfield Sun - Apr 27 2013]

Entities: Sigma, Christine Lee, Sacred Heart University

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

Francis 'Fran' Lawrence, a Tulane fixture who became Rutgers' president, dies at 75

Francis "Fran" Lawrence, who spent three decades as a student, professor and administrator at Tulane University before being appointed Rutgers University 's president, died Tuesday at his home in Mount Laurel, N.J. He was 75.No cause of death was giv ... [Published Bayou Buzz - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Iris Murdoch, Ursula K. Le Guin, Nadine Gordimer, Margaret Atwood

First reported Feb 19 2013 - Updated Feb 19 2013 - 2 reports

Science Fiction Is for Socialists?

SF author China Mieville ( TheCity , Embassytown ) lists 50 science fiction titles of particular interest tosocialists. Interesting to see the overlaps with what turns up on similar lists for libertarians .A smattering of Mieville's picks and justifications ... [Published REASON Online - Feb 19 2013]

Entities: Philip Pullman, Octavia E. Butler, Ken Macleod, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ayn Rand

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A Space at the Mortuary... [Published This Day Online - May 16 2013]
Slaying Dragons [Published TheWalrus.ca - May 14 2013]
Ursula Le Guin's 'The Left Hand of Darkness' Ta... [Published Oregon Public Broadcasting - May 13 2013]
May 10-16: Wonderful Features [Published Salt Lake City Weekly - May 10 2013]
Werewolves, Cheap Wine, and a Pseudotreatise of... [Published The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper - May 09 2013]
Locus Awards 2013 ballot announced: a guide to ... [Published Boing Boing - May 09 2013]
MAX mess in the west; Oregon Symphony Waterfron... [Published Oregonian - May 07 2013]
City hiring under scrutiny; festival season kic... [Published Oregonian - May 06 2013]
Farmers markets, dinosaurs, the Dalai Lama and ... [Published Oregonian - May 03 2013]
Fantasy eye candy at EMP brings film, literary ... [Published Tacoma News Tribune - May 03 2013]
Sacred Heart students, professor participate in... [Published Fairfield Sun - Apr 27 2013]
Francis 'Fran' Lawrence, a Tulane fixture who b... [Published Bayou Buzz - Apr 22 2013]
Identifying Your Archetypes [Published BellaOnline - Apr 17 2013]
Radford presents at Sigma Tau Delta 2013 intern... [Published Sampson Independent - Apr 13 2013]
Friendly Darkness [Published Boing Boing - Mar 26 2013]
The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas E... [Published naked capitalism - Mar 24 2013]
Ursula K. Le Guin, Avenali Chair in the Humanities [Published UC Berkeley Events - YouTube - Mar 04 2013]
Science Fiction Is for Socialists? [Published REASON Online - Feb 19 2013]
Science Fiction Is for Socialists? [Published Hit & Run - Feb 19 2013]
Erdrich, Boo Headline 2012 Winners [Published PublishersWeekly.com - Nov 17 2012]
Crossing the Streams: Sci-Fi and Fantasy [Published PublishersWeekly.com - Oct 05 2012]
Community Events Calendar [Published Bend Bulletin - Aug 04 2012]

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Werewolves, Cheap Wine, and a Pseudotreatise of... [Published The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper - May 09 2013] • Benjamin Percy is the author of Red Moon , which is a novel about werewolves. He's interviewed by local author Jonathan Evison, whose very good novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving is out in paperback, at Elliott Bay Book Company tonight. ...
Locus Awards 2013 ballot announced: a guide to ... [Published Boing Boing - May 09 2013] The 2013 Locus Awards final ballot has been announced, and as ever, it is a fabulous guide signposting some of the very best work published science fiction and fantasy in the past year -- a perfect place to start your explorations of the year's books. ...
Friendly Darkness [Published Boing Boing - Mar 26 2013] It is spring, 1978. Richard Pini lurks near the entrance to a building in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and waits. He had flown on impulse from Boston to Detroit, then driven to this suburban town on the Huron River, out of sheer frustration. His ...
The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas E... [Published naked capitalism - Mar 24 2013] And now for something completely different. In the Mother of All Demos (MoAD), Douglas Engelbart demonstrated the NLS (“oN Line System”) to 1,000 computer professionals in San Francisco’s Convention Center. Arguably, Engelbart’s demo was more important ...
Science Fiction Is for Socialists? [Published Hit & Run - Feb 19 2013] <p><img alt="china mieville" height="375" src="http://reason.com/assets/mc/_external/2013_02/china-mieville.jpg" title="eek, spiders!\|\|\|Credit: Ceridwen/Wikimedia" width="250" style="float: right;"/>SF author China Mieville (TheCity, Embassytown) ...

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Ursula K. Le Guin, Avenali Chair in the Humanities [Published UC Berkeley Events - YouTube - Mar 04 2013]