Ursula K. Le Guin

Paradoxa #21

by Sylvia Kelso (Editor), Darko Suvin (Contributor), Howard Sklar (Contributor)

13 scholarly essays, 1 12-page memoir/essay by Ursula Le Guin, 2 *encounters*, 1 book review, by scholars from the U.S. and around the world, including Darko Suvin (Italy), Beth Snowberger (Taiwan), Amy Clarke (UCSD), Vera Benczik (Hungary), Kathleen Keating (Greensboro College), Richard Erlich (Miami U), Linda Wight (Australia), Howard Sklar (Finland), Kasi Jackson (West Virginia U), Jenny Gal-Or (Great Britain), Traci Thomas-Card (U Wisconsin), Marleen Barr (Fordham U), Warren Rochelle (U Mary Washington), Mike Cadden (Missouri Western State U).

313 pages, Book

First published August 28, 2008

About the author

Sylvia Kelso lives in North Queensland, Australia. She writes fantasy and SF set in analogue or alternate Australian settings. She has published six fantasy novels, two of which, The Moving Water (2006) and Amberlight (2007) were finalists for best fantasy novel of the year in the Australian Aurealis genre fiction awards.
Her most recent novel-length work is a two-volume contemporary fantasy, the Blackston Gold series, The Solitaire Ghost, and The Time Seam.
Her novella, "Spring in Geneva," a riff on Frankenstein , came out from Aqueduct in 2013.
She has also published short stories in Australian and US anthologies, including "The Cretaceous Border" in Neverlands from Susurrus Press, "The Sharp-Shooter" in New Ceres Nights from 12th Planet Press, and "An Offer You Couldn't Refuse" in Love and Rockets from DAW. She lives in a house with a lot of trees but no cats.

Reviews

[Dan Trefethen]

A selection of academically-oriented essays on Le Guin's work. Most of them focus on a particular text, so that you can focus on the texts you are familiar with - which is easier to understand than the ones you're not, since most of the essays are written in standard acadamese, with the authors using complex words that are undefined.

Nevertheless, an interesting compilation. Not for beginners unfamiliar or barely familiar with Le Guin, but for aficianados.

But then, I don't know who but aficianados would pick up a volume like this.