Search results for Ursula K. Le Guin

How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change

The most assuring thing about life is that we can change, that things can change, that they are always changing. The most maddening is that despite living in a universe that is one...

Five Anime for Fans of Ursula K. Le Guin

Not including the Ghibli adaptation of "Tales of Earthsea"... The post Five Anime for Fans of Ursula K. Le Guin appeared first on Reactor.

mapping the dreamworld: inside ursula k le guin’s unseen cartographies of myth and mind

'the word for world' uses the author's cartography collection as a jumping-off point for existential inquiry and redrawing the boundaries of human perception. The post mapping the...

Jo Walton’s Reading List: April 2026

Le Guin, fairy tale retellings, Florentine romance, and a mystery in space! The post Jo Walton’s Reading List: April 2026 appeared first on Reactor.

In Your Spare Time: Ursula K. Le Guin Podcast Brings Her Entire Blog to Your Ears

Yes, even the blog posts that are primarily cat photos The post <i>In Your Spare Time</i>: Ursula K. Le Guin Podcast Brings Her Entire Blog to Your Ears appeared first...

Jo Walton’s Reading List: March 2026

Le Guin, Kate Elliott, Michael Chabon and mainstream lit, plus brand-new books! The post Jo Walton’s Reading List: March 2026 appeared first on Reactor.

Ursula K. Le Guin's blog has been turned into a podcast

For those who will never tire of the words of Ursula K. Le Guin, a special treat is on the way. The esteemed late author's blog, which she started in 2010 at the age of 81, is bein...

10 Lesser-Known Anti-Totalitarian Novels

While Orwell and Atwood have become the default lenses through which readers process political darkness, a rich parallel tradition of anti-totalitarian fiction has been making the...

The Enemy Outside and the Enemy Within: Audre Lorde’s Antidote to Despair

“There is no love of life without despair of life,” Albert Camus wrote between two world wars. There are many species of despair — the private despair of ill health and heartbreak,...

Embodying the Existential in Sci-Fi & Fantasy, a guest post by Laura Genn

We often say, “I wouldn’t trade that memory for anything,” after a meaningful event. What if you quite literally could, though?

Five Mostly Helpful Mentors in SF and Fantasy

Helping young protagonists fulfill their destiny... if they can keep them alive long enough. The post Five Mostly Helpful Mentors in SF and Fantasy appeared first on Reactor.

Terri Windling’s The Wood Wife Continues to Inspire

The novel is a living conversation between art and poetry, the past and the present, nature and community... The post Terri Windling’s <i>The Wood Wife</i> Continues to...

Gary Snyder on How to Unbreak the World

"What we’d hope for on the planet is creativity and sanity, conviviality, the real work of our hands and minds."

Read an Excerpt From Kill All Wizards by Jedediah Berry

Sword, sorcery, and a spot of tea. The post Read an Excerpt From <i>Kill All Wizards</i> by Jedediah Berry appeared first on Reactor.

The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

"Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice."

Read an Excerpt From A Dark and Wild Wood by Sarah Nicole Lemon

A lush and atmospheric story of a maiden with dark magic who becomes the apprentice to Lord Death—for a price. The post Read an Excerpt From <i>A Dark and Wild Wood</i>...

Absolute Wonder Woman, Power Fantasy and more are HUGO AWARDS Finalists

'The book is in the future, but everything is seeded from our present'

Helen Phillips, winner of the Climate Fiction prize for her novel Hum, on if stories can make a difference, her anxieties and writing about the climate

Read an Excerpt From The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden

In a desperate gamble to save her throne, a young monarch conceals a secret marriage in the shadows of an enchanted forest… The post Read an Excerpt From <i>The Unicorn Hunte...

Consolation for Sorrow from King Arthur’s Court: Merlyn’s Advice on What to Do When the World Gets You Down

"Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream o...

The Deep Humanity of Project Hail Mary

What are we trying to save? The post The Deep Humanity of <em>Project Hail Mary</em> appeared first on Reactor.

Wherever You Think There Is Nothing

We spend our lives searching for portals to the possible. They are rarely gates swung open for us by some great hand. Often, they are where we least expect them — in the chance enc...

Moonlight and the Magic of the Unnecessary

Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its craters a monument of the odds we prevailed...

Read an Excerpt From Inkpot Gods by Seanan McGuire

Can the gods of today defeat the evils of their maker, or will the legacy of the most powerful alchemist the world has ever known be their undoing? The post Read an Excerpt From &l...