Ursula K. Le Guin, Sci-Fi/Fantasy Legend, Dead at 88

[Coír Draoi Ceítien]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/obituaries/ursula-k-le-guin-acclaimed-for-her-fantasy-fiction-is-dead-at-88.html

I just turned on my computer this evening to find this out. It's sad, I guess, but she did have a long and fruitful career. Still, to live in a world without her is going to feel pretty empty, for those who steadfastly followed her work. (Thus, you can count me out, but I do intend on reading more in the future.)

What are your memories of Mrs. Le Guin? What have you read by her, if any? What did you find the best about her?

[Raven]

I read the original three Earthsea novels and enjoyed them well enough, though I doubt I'd ever re-read them or explore her work much further. She had a decent prose style and she imagined an interesting world unlike what I'd read before (the whole archipelago thing). She certainly represents the "next generation" after the inklings, I would think. Of course, now that generation is two or three "generations" of fantasy in the past.

[Coír Draoi Ceítien]

Here are a few tributes on Tor.om memorializing her and her work.

https://www.tor.com/2018/01/23/ursula-k-le-guin-1929-2018/
https://www.tor.com/2018/01/24/bright-the-hawks-flight-in-the-empty-sky-ursula-k-le-guin/
https://www.tor.com/2018/01/24/the-science-fiction-and-fantasy-community-remembers-ursula-k-le-guin/
https://www.tor.com/2018/01/24/ursula-k-le-guin-hard-times-are-coming/
https://www.tor.com/2018/01/25/the-amorphous-fictional-spaces-of-ursula-k-le-guin/

Yeah, I know you might not be interested in anything further, but I feel these are worth looking at if only to get a deeper appreciation of what she meant to the sci-fi/fantasy community at large. Her worldview might not have been in sync with ours, but she certainly opened up the possibilities of the field(s). She will definitely be missed.

[Raven]

I'm not familiar with her world-view or anything; I was just speaking as a reader. I did enjoy her books (read three of them, I think).