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Solitude
URSULA K. LE GU1N
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 conventionтАЩs guest of honor, and
those fortunate enough to attend Wiscon were delighted
and entertained by her speech about тАЬGeriatrica,тАЭ 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 тАЬone of
the most important writers within the fieldтАж More
attention has been paid to her by the academic
community than to any other modern sf writer.тАЭ 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).
About her novelette тАЬSolitude,тАЭ which won a 1995
Nebula Award, she writes:
тАЬ тАШSolitudeтАЩ is one of a bunch of stories I have been
writing which I call in my own mind Swiving Through the
Cosmos, or Galactic Nookie-Nookie, because they all seem
to have to do with love, sex, that sort of stuff. тАШSolitudeтАЩ
comes at this interesting subject from a very odd angle,
 and there is very little nookie-nookie in the story, IтАЩm
sorry to say. What the story seems to be working on is
how a society that had really fallen apart, keeping only
the most minimal social and community bonds, would
handle sex and male-female relationships and bringing
up the kids. It was fun to write because I am an introvert,
and this is a planet full of introverts.тАЭ


An addition to тАЬPOVERTY: The Second Report on Eleven-SoroтАЭ
by Mobile EntselenneтАЩtemharyonoterregwis Leaf, by her daughter,
Serenity.
My mother, a field ethnologist, took the difficulty of learning
anything about the people of Eleven-Soro as a personal challenge.
The fact that she used her children to meet that challenge might be
seen as selfishness or as selflessness. Now that I have read her
report I know that she finally thought she had done wrong.