‘I honestly don’t know what I would have become if it weren’t for Ursula Le Guin’

Hank Green

‘She was, rather, a colossus of literature, a radical, a trailblazer’

China Miéville

‘Look at the top tier of writers in science fiction and fantasy today … and you see the unmistakable traces of Le Guin in their work’

John Scalzi

‘She influenced a generation and more of writers’

Guy Gavriel Kay

‘She was a crafter of fierce, focused, fertile dreams’

David Mitchell

Contents

Praise

Title Page

Betrayals

Forgiveness Day

A Man of the People

A Woman’s Liberation

Old Music and the Slave Women

Notes on Werel and Yeowe

Also by Ursula K. Le Guin

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