"No matter how humble the spirit it’s offered in, a sermon is an act of aggression."
- #UrsulaKLeGuin, Teasing Myself Out of Thought
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'Language is “for” communicating, but when we come to such phenomena as #poetry and made-up names and languages, the function of communication and the construction of meaning become as impenetrable to intellect alone as the tune of a song. The writer has to listen. The reader has to hear. Pleasure in articulate sound, and in the symbolic use of it, is what moves the maker of a poem, and also the maker of a fictional language, even if her tongue is the only one that will ever speak it and her ear alone is tuned to it.'
- #UrsulaKLeGuin, Inventing #Languages (2014) #conlang #music
"The creative adult is the child who has survived." — Ursula K LeGuin
#ursulakleguin #metacrisis #mentalhealth #traumainformed
Ursula K. Le Guin's 'Steering The Craft' is both a creative writing manual, and a manifesto for the importance of good writing. It's as beautifully written as her fiction.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/bb4c17b1-bdd9-47b4-9715-398dfbd35a67
#creativewriting #ursulakleguin #steeringthecraft #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
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@ShadSterling @unfmeghan @fabio I think of that Le Guin quote often, it gives me hope.
You damn right I'm naming the superhabitable world orbiting Tollman (Alpha Centauri B) 'LeGuin' in my Worldbuilding, so many reasons to do so.
Most importantly it is a statement in Universe and out, a hopepunk space opera, the old world making way for new worlds.
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W sobotę (17.05.2025 r.), podczas Warszawskich Targów Książki, zostali ogłoszeni laureaci dwunastej edycji Nagród „Nowej Fantastyki”.
https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/aktualnosci/nagrody-nowej-fantastyki-2025/
Cornish Avant Folk project 'The Worm' is exactly the sort of thing that Mastodon would like, in this playlist for BBC 6 Music they provide music which is: "old and new and slipping" from the likes of Young Druid. Trio Mediaeval and Ursula K Le Guin."
BBCBBC Radio 6 Music - Freak Zone Playlist, Time Travelling with the WormGo time travelling with Cornish avant folk project The Worm.
"But then I think no, it has nothing to do with being dead, it's not death that allows us to understand one another, but poetry."
Ursula K. Le Guin
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#SundaySentence #quote #UrsulaKLeGuin
Olen melko ällikällä lyöty ehdokkuudestani #Agricola-käännöspalkinnolle. Erityisen iloinen olen #UrsulaKLeGuin in, #Kompassiruusu n ja fandomin puolesta, ei ole vieläkään ihan jokapäiväistä että jokin perinteisesti genreen lokeroitu teos ja kirjailija ovat ehdolla yleiselle kirjallisuuspalkinnolle. Agricolahan myönnetään todellakin "merkittävän kaunokirjallisen teoksen erinomaisesta suomennoksesta".
Kuvassa pöllämystynyt ja onnellinen #suomentaja.
Familia eta komunitate mota alternatiboak ZiFian
Zientzia-fikzioak familia eta komunitate mota ugari aztertu ditu, eredu tradizionalei aurre eginez eta gizarte alternatiboak irudikatuz. Hauek dira orainaldian inspirazio iturri izan daitezkeen adibideetako batzuk:
Ursula K. Le Guinen esperimentu komunitarioak
Le Guinek familia eta komunitate egitura ezberdinak aztertu zituen bere obran. The Dispossessed eleberrian, gizarte anarkista bat aurkezten du Anarres planetan, non familia biologikoak ez duen hainbesteko garrantzirik, eta antolakuntza kolektiboagoa den. The Left Hand of Darkness lanean, Gueden planetako biztanleak androginoak dira eta sexua alda dezakete; ondorioz, familia-antolaketa guztiz desberdina da, genero-rol finkorik gabea. The Word for World Is Forest (Oihan hitzean mundua bezala euskaratua) eleberrian, gizartea kooperazioan eta indarkeriarik ezan oinarritzen da. Bertan, familia nuklear tradizionalik ez dago, haurren hazkuntza komunala da, eta guraso-rolak ez daude modu hertsian definituta.
Diamond Age-ko phyle-ak (Neal Stephenson)
Eleberri honetan, Stephensonek phyle kontzeptua aurkezten du: lurralde edo ahaidetasun biologikoaren ordez, balioen, interesen edo kulturaren arabera antolatutako komunitate globalak. Phyle-ak klan moderno gisa funtzionatzen dute, kideei hezkuntza, segurtasuna eta egonkortasuna eskainiz, eta mundu postnazional bateko gizarte-antolaketa modu nagusia bihurtzen dira.
Embassytown-eko txanda-gurasoak (China Miéville)
Eleberriak shiftparents (txanda-gurasoak) kontzeptua aurkezten du, familia-egitura ez-konbentzionala, non hainbat guraso-figurak gurasotasuna partekatzen duten. Eredu horrek familia nuklear tradizionalaren aurrean babes komunitarioko eta malgutasunezko eredu bat proposatzen du, giza eta estralurtarren arteko gizarte-harremanak irudikatuz. Hizkuntzak ere paper zentrala du nobelan.
Binti tribua (Nnedi Okorafor)
Binti eleberriko protagonista Lurreko Himba komunitate batetik dator, familia-lotura sendoak eta tradizioan oinarritutako egitura mantentzen dituenetik. Bere bidaian zehar, beste komunitate-forma batzuekin egiten du topo, baita izaki estralurtarrekin ere, elkar-ulermenean eta eraldaketan oinarritutako ahaidetasun sinbiotiko mota bat garatuz.
The Fifth Season-eko comm-ak (N.K. Jemisin)
Comm bakoitzak komunitate estu bat bezala funtzionatzen du, non kide bakoitzak zeregin zehatz bat duen. Egitura hau funtsezkoa da taldearen biziraupenerako, batez ere baldintza apokaliptikoetan. Harreman aniztasun handia dago, eta Jemisinek kasten eta botere-harremanen inguruko lanketa sakona egiten du nobelan.
Hauek dira adibide batzuk; asko utzi ditut bidean. Besterik ezagutuz gero, animatu eta iruzkinetan edo Mastodon bidez erantzun.
Irudia: https://www.flickr.com/photos/marcosdemadariaga/44310673845/in/photostream/
#chinaMieville #etorkizunEspekulatiboa #familia #komunitatea #NKJemisin #nealStephenson #sciFi #ursulaKLeguin #ZiFi
https://etzi.pm/familia-eta-komunitate-mota-alternatiboak-zifian/
Niedawno zamówione #lem #leguin #ursulakleguin #książkodon
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Le Guin, Lem - I mów, że moja chwała z przyjaciół się bierze. Listy 1972-1984
https://lubimyczytac.pl/ksiazka/5164186/i-mow-ze-moja-chwala-z-przyjaciol-sie-bierze-listy-1972-1984
Lubimyczytać.plI mów, że moja chwała z przyjaciół się bierze. Listy 1972-1984 | Ursula K. Le Guin, Stanisław Lem„Czarnoksiężnik z Archipelagu był dla mnie cudownym przeżyciem. Jest to tak krystalicznie czysta, przejrzysta opowieść, że poczułem coś na kształt zazdrości. Są na tym świecie dobrzy pisarze, są też...
Quite different from the planetary #scifi I associate most with #UrsulaKLeGuin , the story of a man whose dreams change reality, and the sleep doctor who exploits him. Written with her trademark elegance and wisdom, with shifts between quiet interiority and 'big budget' spectacle that only literary sci fi can offer. A classic that I'm amazed I got so far into my life to get around to reading! @bookstodon #bookstodon #FinishedReading
"In 1982, an interviewer for a science fiction magazine asked Le Guin what she would do to save the world. She answered impatiently: “The syntax implies a further clause beginning with if…What would I do to save the world if I were omnipotent? But I am not, so the question is trivial. What would I do to save the world if I were a middle-aged middle-class woman? Write novels and worry.”"
https://lithub.com/the-way-of-water-on-the-quiet-power-of-ursula-k-le-guins-activism/
Literary Hub · The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s ActivismIn the past two months, I’ve found myself thinking back to an essay Ursula K. Le Guin posted on her blog in November 2016. It was one of her last long essays, and she wrote it at a time when she—li…
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Since the post on Ursula K. Le Guin's schedule is still getting traction, grabbing the opportunity to once again mention her blog, which she started at the age of 81, where, beyond her thoughts and her usual brilliant insight and writing, she also frequently shared many snippets and affectionate posts about her cat Pard, who, according to a recent update by the person currently maintaining her Instagram account, is now 14 and still doing well (https://www.instagram.com/p/DCsakr5yJEf/?hl=en).
Was once again reminded of Ursula K. Leguin's daily schedule, and why this woman was an icon on every single level.
#Capitalisme
#Capitalism
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La toujours formidable Ursula K LeGuin, sur le capitalisme.
À apprendre par coeur et se répéter tous les matins :
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
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In my own mind I’ve moved on quite far from the utopia of The Dispossessed to the semi-utopia of Always Coming Home, where I did try to make it simply a lifestyle. (...) What I took from the Indians was, essentially, running your lives without a central government and using consensus as the basic mode, which you can’t do in a big society, it’s a matter of numbers.
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https://lithub.com/ursula-k-le-guin-on-racism-anarchy-and-hearing-her-characters-speak/
Literary Hub · Ursula K. Le Guin on Racism, Anarchy, and Hearing Her Characters SpeakThis interview originally appeared in Issue 14 of Structo Magazine. It’s not hard to see why Ursula K. Le Guin is best known for her early novels. In the space of six years came A Wizard of Earthse…