By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer
A belated requiem for Ursula K. Le Guin, who died last week at 88 after creating a lifetime of singularly thoughtful, feminist, leftist and wondrous science fiction. In her books, including The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, she explored a wide world of themes – anarchism, androgyny, mythology, capitalism, the Taoist concept of balance, the enduring challenge of being human – and we are richer for it.
Via Common Dreams. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News with permission or license.