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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929 - 2018)

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daughter of Alfred Louis Kroeber and Theodora Kroeber

spent her childhood in highly stimulating environment (community of Berkeley anthropologists)

married historian Charles le Guin in 1953, stayed with him ever since

6 Hugo Awards; 8 Nebula Awards; 25 Locus Awards; 2nd woman honored (in 2003) as a Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

main topics / influences: cultural anthropology & the Golden Bough; (jungian) archetypes; (philosophical) taoism; mythology

two major cycles: Earthsea cycle (high fantasy) and Hainish cycle (soft sci-fi)

in cca 20 minutes You will be asked a question: "Is the planet on which Earthsea cycle stories unfold part of the Ekumen/Hain universe ?"

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Descendants (at least 17 branches originate here)

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    daughter of Alfred Louis Kroeber and Theodora Kroeber spent her childhood in highly stimulating environment (community of Berkeley anthropologists) married hist
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    • is_parent Earthsea cycle 🔒 ·
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    • is_parent Left hand of Darkness (1969) 🔒 ·
      Hainish novel set on Gethen (Winter), where humans undergo 24-day "somer" (ambisexual) and 2-day "kemmer" (male or female; fertility and receptiveness) cycles.
    • is_parent The Dispossessed (1974) 🔒 ·
      Paired worlds: Anarres (anarchist, austere) and Urras (capitalist, lush) — one origin, two social experiments.Physicist Shevek leaves Anarres to complete a the
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    • is_parent The word for world is forest (1972) 🔒 ·
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