A Tribute to Ursula K. LeGuin I wanted to share some paintings I did this year for a new release of The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin. They have been under wraps until recently, and now that the book is available, I'm excited to finally get the chance to share them! The paintings were

Ms. Le Guin brought literary elegance and a feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy tales, drawing millions of readers around the world.

I never met Ursula K. Le Guin, who died on January 22, 2018, at the age of eighty-eight, in Portland, Oregon, her home for many years. And yet we became good friends during the last two months of her life, entirely by way of e-mail. I inaugurated the correspondence on November 21, 2017, and she replied on November 24th. After that we exchanged letters sixteen times, until her final letter of January 16, 2018, which concluded:

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The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K Le Guin (1969) Review by Ian Sales Le Guin is an author who grows as you grow. You can read and admire her at thirteen, and you can read and admire her at forty-…