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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Another is Urula K. LeGuin. She make have good story ideas, but the way she describes things just drives me nuts.
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LeGuin's work from the 60s and early 70s is magical, essential reading. Her problem is that she converted to Feminism with a capital F in the early 80s and started thinking that she needed to write Meaningful Works, the result being the stinking pile of trash that is Tehanu and other similar later works.
The Earthsea Trilogy from the 1960s is the one of the greatest pieces of fantasy ever written, suffused with a subtle and coherent philosophy that surpasses anything else in the genre. It is, however, rather sexist if you're sensitive to such things. Rather than accepting that and moving on, LeGuin turned around and trashed the entire premise of the original trilogy many years later in order to prove her feminist credentials. Her career is an excellent example of how a superb author who's capable of thinking for herself can get turned into a robot spewing mindless political diatribes. She can still write very well if you can avoid the corrosive propaganda.
/rant off
