#ursula-k-le-guin

#ursula-k-le-guin

"I was very into film and particularly TV at that point," he recalls, "and this was the first made-for-TV movie that public television had ever done. When I saw her on set with all these people deferring to her and making a movie out of one of her books, the pennies began to drop for me. I was like, 'Oh. My mother's important.'"

"Her voice is as familiar to me as my own," says Theo Downes-Le Guin, youngest child of hugely influential Portland author Ursula K. Le Guin. "That voice is inside my head while I'm reading." Most aren't so fortunate, even if they feel at home in Le Guin's Earthsea and Hainish universes. Before her death in 2018, Le Guin was unanimously regarded as the leading light of American science fiction.