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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
Isn't Le Guin a SciFi and Fantasy writer, a peddler of genre fiction? And she feels qualified to speak about literature? O tempora, o mores...
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Wel... Mrs. Le Guin wrote some nice fantasy works, that's for sure; but if 'the critics' even refuse to see Lord of the Rings as a classic (because it's fantasy, and fantasy can never be literature, blablabla....), then what would those same critics think of her books? They're nice, certainly, but they don't hold a candle against LotR and its world.
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You have it all backwards. They (LotR and Earthsea) are literature,
therefore they cannot possibly be Fantasy/SciFi.