![]() ![]() ![]() She could not see Taviri, she was too short. She did not hear the words, nor see the faces: only the booming, and the bodies pressed one behind the other. She wormed and pushed her way among the dark-clothed, close packed people. ![]() ![]() Taviri was somewhere on the other side of the hall. The speaker's voice was loud as empty beer-trucks in a stone street, and the people at the meeting were jammed up close, cobblestones, that great voice booming over them. The story that follows is cut from the same fictional tapestry as The Dispossessed. Ursula comes naturally to writing and science: her mother was an author, her father an anthropologist her husband is a Portland State College professor of French history, and she herself, besides her family of three children, possesses an advanced degree in French and Italian Renaissance literature. The Le Guin award-winning spree began with her 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness, which won both the Nebula and Hugo awards and to my mind did more to exploit the potential of the science-fiction novel than anything published to that time and it continued with her Hugo novella of 1971, "The Word for World Is Forest," her Hugo short story of 1973, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, and the 1973 National Book Award in children's literature for her novel The Farthest Shore. Ursula's The Dispossessed won the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award for the best novel of 1974. URSULA LE GUIN The Day Before the Revolution "The Day Before the Revolution" won the Nebula Award for the best science-fiction short story of 1974. ![]()
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