Wikipedia: Ursula K. Le Guin/Talk

Le Guin definitely spells her name with a space. This is the way it appears on all her books, on her letterhead stationery, etc. // Always Coming Home HAS a story. It also has inset material on the civilization. The same thing is true of The Left Hand of Darkness.

Is Always Coming Home a novel???? I'm not sure what it is, but a novel is supposed to have a story, doesn't it?

I kind of got the anarchist (or at least socialist) stuff, but taoist? Which works and what themes in them? I'm curious!

At a guess, the Earthsea novels seem taoist...being one with nature, preserving the balance etc.

Note: This author's name is properly spelled with a space, thus: Ursula K. Le Guin.

If I remember correctly from a letter from her, she spelled without the space. With the space seems more common on books, though. Oh well. --Pinkunicorn

-- due to uncertainty about the correct spelling of her last name, a Wikipedia page on her also exists at Ursula K. Le Guin

I suggest that this confusion be resolved and the pages merged, with the "wrong" page left as a pointer to the correct one.

The United States Library of Congress catalog shows her name as Le Guin with the space, therefore making that the main page with "LeGuin?" redirecting to it. (28 September 2001) ***

I confess that I haven't read it fully yet, but "The Other Wind" is part of the Earthsea series, isn't it? It appears to include characters from Tehanu, along with at least one appearance of Ged. Does this make it the next book in the Earthsea "pentology"?

The Other Wind is definitely an Earthsea novel. It follows on from "Tehanu."

Also, "Le Guin", with a space, according to her Web page: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/

Thanks. It would be an interesting battle royale if the Library of Congress and author disagreed on the correct spelling of the name. :-)

"She has written that her goal was to write about a society that had never had a war."

-- I recall this as being something she speculated would be an secondary effect of genderlessness rather than the initial motive for the book. Anybody have a source one way or the other?

From my memory of the short story "Winter's King" which was UKlG?'s first story about the world of Gethen, the Gethenians did have wars; or at least, civil war. I'll have to dig out and re-read the originals... -- The Anome