The Writings of Ursula Le Guin

Hi all -- I'm new to LJ, but having fun exploring.  Big fan of Ursula's work, and trying to let people know that she will be coming to opening night of Ride The Red Mare at The Winningstad Theatre in Portland, Oregon on December 16th at 7:30.  This is a fantastic puppetry adaption of her book A Ride On The Red Mare's Back (sadly out of print at the moment - come on, Scholastic, get it back in print!)  Anyway, she'll be doing a short Q & A from the stage after the show, then a private signing for ticket holders afterwards in the lobby area.  Check out www.tojt.org if you are in the area and want tickets.  Should be a pretty awesome show, especially with the author in the audience!  Oh, and they will have specially made CDs available of her reading the book with Third Angle Ensemble playing the music they created for the show.

Hey all, I could've sworn I found an LJ comm devoted entirely to The Left Hand of Darkness, but it seems I was mistaken as I can't find anything of the sort now. Am I wrong? Is there such a thing?

I much cherish that book, which effected me profoundly both times I read it (a decade ago, and then a few months ago). If there are any other LHoD fans out there, please feel free to add me. I'm hoping to set this LJ up as basically my fandom LJ, since few of my RL friends "get" the things I'm into. =)

Hi,

       yesterday BBC Radio 7 started broadcasting The Diary of the Rose in 30 minutes episodes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ncgg3/The_Diary_of_the_Rose_Episode_1/

The Diary of the Rose - Episode 1
 

Hi,

this weekend an interview with Ursula K. Le Guin was broadcast on the BBC's World Service.

here's the link,

Ray Harley, Blairgowrie, Scotland.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00d5vqc/The_Interview_Ursula_Le_Guin/

The Interview - Ursula Le Guin

Author Ursula Le Guin gives Owen Bennett Jones a lesson in science fiction and talks about how her work has been influenced by anthropology and Taoism.

Author Ursula Le Guin gives Owen Bennett Jones a lesson in science fiction and talks about how her work has been influenced by anthropology and Taoism.

She also tells the story of Ishi, a Native American who escaped the massacre of his tribe.

I hope you have a fun day and a great year. Thank you.

#UKL80

reposting from wiscon:

Email from Vonda N. McIntyre:

Hi everybody,

Ursula K. Le Guin's 80th birthday is on 21 October 2009 and I'm going to post a Happy Birthday Ursula message on my website and my blogs that day, and I think I have some other folks talked into doing the same.

I just thought it might be fun if a lot of websites and blogs wished her Happy Birthday. (It's also the 40th anniversary of Left Hand of Darkness.) Her website is www.ursulakleguin.com (the actual content begins on http://www.ursulakleguin.com/UKL_info.html )

Here are two illustrations to "The Wizard of Earthsea by Julia Alekseeva (Her official site - http://darkgift.ru/fantasy1.html)

http://darkgift.ru/images/Illustration/wizard.jpg
http://darkgift.ru/images/Illustration/wizard11.jpg

I've created a short article for the Earthsea fandom on the Fanlore wiki, a project for recording fannish history. If anyone were able to expand it that would be useful. In particular, I know nothing about the pre-internet fandom, nor about fan art/graphics. There's also no article there for Le Guin, which more widely read fans than I might wish to rectify.

The Earthsea Ficathon 2009 has just finished over at earthsea_fic; the masterlist is here.

Hi to all!
I've been reading Le Guin since I was 10, I suppose, and she always impressed me very much.
My favourite story is, of couse, "The left hand of darkness". It was so good to find some pieces of fanfiction on it in this community! Thanks to the authors. I have also written one story myself, though it was in Russian, my native language.
I'm terribly glad ton find this community, too))