Hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken societies and their obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
— Ursula K. Le Guin Modern

Science fiction, fantasy

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National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters acceptance speech

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2014

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Controversial

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https://www.nationalbook.org/ursula-k-le-guin-2014-distinguished-contribution-to…

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