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FICTION: Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood ∙ Morgan's Passing, Anne Tyler ∙ Shikasta, Doris Lessing Smiley's People, John le Carre ∙ The Beginning Place, Ursula K. Le Guin The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter Yellowfish, John Keeble...
FICTION: A Married Man, Piers Paul Read · Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood · On the Edge of the Cliff, V.S. Pritchett · Shikasta, Doris Leasing · Smiley's People, John le Carre · The Beginning Place, Ursula K. Le Guin · Yellowfish, John Keeble
FICTION: A Married Man, Piers Paul Read ∙ Old Love, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ On the Edge of the Cliff, V.S. Pritchett ∙ Shikasta, Doris Lessing ∙ Smiley's People, John le Carre ∙ The Beginning Place, Ursula K. Le Guin ∙ Yellowfish, John Keeble
Writing while bringing up children, Le Guin sold her first short story when she was 30 and then began building a stellar reputation among sci-fi fans; her 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness won both a Hugo and a Nebula, science fiction's most prestigious awards. The Farthest Shore (1972) received a National Book Award. As the youngsters went off to school, the author fell into a writing schedule that she still maintains. She goes to her writing room in the house each morning at 9 and sits there for at least four hours, whether ideas...
Although she has complained in the past that science fiction was not taken seriously enough by mainstream critics, Le Guin now concedes that the form "still hasn't grown up completely." Some of her recent books, including The Beginning Place, Malafrena (1979) and Orsinian Tales (1976), have contained little or no conventional scifi, although she is not considering abandoning the form for good. She still feels challenged by its "total freedom of plot; there are no limits except those of imagination." That is certainly not true of science in the real world, as Le Guin was reminded last month...