Tag: Science Fiction

I mentioned the news of the author Ursula Le Guin passing away in an earlier post. Here is a note of appreciation. As an Operations Research person, I love hard science fiction (Clarke, Niven, Reynolds, and others).  But, it was astounding to read Le Guin the first time, and the sense of mystery has only deepened over the years.  She was distinct from every other literary author that I have read. In her writings, Le Guin brought her unique sensitivity in creating imagined worlds with poetic words corralled with a rational curiosity of science. Much has been written on the internet on the social foresight in her writings:  the physical appearance of her protagonists, gender issues, politics of social choice, etc. She…

I learned that Ursula Le Guin passed away, earlier today. I am a bit surprised how much this news has affected me.  Le Guin was one of the best writers that I had the pleasure of reading, first as a teenager, and then through the college years, as the appreciation of her nuanced writing grew unceasingly. Her writing transformed how I thought about Science, Fiction, and the world.  She was the SF writer that deserved the Nobel more than anyone. More later, but here is the NYTimes Obit.