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Wilson’s Iliad and Le Guin’s Battle Between Good and Evil, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sword

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Wilson’s Iliad and Le Guin’s Battle Between Good and Evil, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sword

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Water Worlds: Classic SF Set on Ocean Planets

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Five Ways Generation Ships Are Doomed to Fail in Science Fiction

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Space Opera

11 Books That Changed How I Think About Space Opera

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Tor.com 15th Anniversary

Unlocking the Full Brilliance of Ursula Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle

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Fairy Tales

Mother and the Wolf: Maternal Power in Fairy Tales

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Scholomance Trilogy, Naomi Novik
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literary criticism

The Maw-Mouth of Omelas: Reading Naomi Novik’s Scholomance Series as a Response to Ursula K. Le Guin

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writing

My Le Guin Year: Storytelling Lessons From a Master

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languages

From Pravic to Palp-Semaphore: Seven Ingenious Languages in Speculative Fiction

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Ursula Le Guin

The Ones Who Can’t Walk Away: Another Perspective on Omelas

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Ursula Le Guin

My Le Guin Year: Craft Lessons From a Master

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Jo Walton's Reading List for February 2021
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Jo Walton Reads

Jo Walton’s Reading List: February 2021

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“There is an art to smiling in a way that others will believe. It is always important to include the eyes; otherwise, people will know you hate them.”

N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

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