![]() ![]() ![]() Rocannon’s World, Le Guin later wrote, “has a good shape,” but she disliked her own mixing of fantasy and science fiction tropes in the same package. Le Guin herself, as Amal El-Mohtar points out in her superb introduction to this Tor edition, would later look back on her earliest work with hints of dissatisfaction. And, for this omission, my literary life has been a poorer one. Yet, for all that I considered Le Guin a paramount figure in my own literary development, I never got around to reading Rocannon’s World until this Tor special edition of Worlds of Exile and Illusion. Later, I would go on to read The Dispossessed and seek out Le Guin’s worlds of tomorrow, landscapes of technological and social futurism that seemed to positively live and breathe their own complex realities. ![]() ![]() At the time, many of her themes and subtleties were beyond me, but her writing evoked mental imagery as sharp and fresh over two decades later as when I first encountered it on the page. My father loved Le Guin’s work and wanted to share her magic with his son, which was, in my opinion, one of his best choices as a father. Le Guin, through the sorcerous island landscape of her Earthsea novels, at around the age of thirteen. I first encountered the work of Ursula K. Le Guin – Worlds of Exile and Illusion Worlds of Exile and Illusion By Ursula K. ![]()
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