Ursula Le Guin 去世

[Jun]

科幻/奇幻小说作家 Ursula Le Guin 昨天去世，享年88岁。我看过她的三四本书，最喜欢的是 The Lathe of Heaven. 她是道家老子的粉丝，阴阳哲学与 feminism 理论结合在一起，给她的作品带来独特的风味。

十来年前我曾经听过她在见面会（好像是得什么奖）上读自己的一篇短篇小说，描述一群女人探险到北极，但从未公诸于众而是将冒险的经历埋在心里。当场差点听哭了，虽然那时根本不明白为什么。

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way ... dies-at-88

For evidence of this mainstream respect, a reader need look no further than the lifetime achievement honors bestowed on her at the 2014 National Book Awards — where she also delivered a fiery defense of the practice of literature as a whole.

"Hard times are coming," she warned, "when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries, realists of a larger reality."

[putaopi]

某人和女儿最近在一起读她的书，我竟然不知道这是女作家。

[Jun]

某人和女儿最近在一起读她的书，我竟然不知道这是女作家。

哦？他们在看哪一本？很奇怪的，我特喜欢 Lathe of Heaven 但是对于 The Dispossessed 完全看不懂。

[幻儿]

从没看过她的书（科幻/奇幻从来不是我的茶），也从没听说过她。但是被她写的这两则圈粉了。


上面是她不肯写blurb宣传男性中心的科幻丛书。下面是alternative facts vs. fiction.

[笑嘻嘻]

今年的书单上又多了几本书。科幻和奇幻都是我的茶。我听NPR说她父母都是人类学家。她的第一本书虽然是科幻，根本更像是人类学小说。