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Ursula K. Le Guin was recently honored with one of the first retrospective James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Awards for her groundbreaking novel The Left Hand of Darkness. She accepted this award in May of 1996 at Wiscon 20, the only science fiction convention devoted to feminist issues, held every year in Madison, Wisconsin. (Le Guin was also the convention’s guest of honor, and those fortunate enough to attend Wiscon were delighted and entertained by her speech about “Geriatrica,” that land to which those of us who live long enough will inevitably be deported.) Among her many other honors are five Nebula Awards, five Hugo Awards, a National Book Award, The Pilgrim Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction describes her as “one of the most important writers within the field... More attention has been paid to her by the academic community than to any other modern sf writer.” Her books include The Lathe of Heaven, Malafrena, The Dispossessed, Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences, Always Coming Home, A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, Four Ways to Forgiveness, and her four Earthsea novels (A Wizard of Earth-sea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea).

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