Ursula K. le Guin and the current state of publishing

[Katie-Ellen]

Here, she is talking about:-

Books as commodities. Stack em high and sell them cheap

Oo- err says the owlet. Never a one to mince words. Only worms, beetles, and one day, mice.

 

[MaryA]

She's always had that fierce, uncompromising vision. I remember reading The Left Hand of Darkness for the first time and seeing that sci-fi could be utterly different from what I knew. And her integrity has never faltered.

 

[Howard]

What a great speech. Shame that those who aught to take on board what she says are fairly unlikely to.

 

[Rich.]

I have never heard her speak and not been inspired. Like you @MaryA, I had an enlightening experience with her books. As a young teenager I came across her short story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, and after knitting my brows and staring at the middle distance for the best part of an academic year, I thought Ah! So that's what politics is all about!