Le Guin was never forgotten, she was always one of the greats, long before affirmative action came. You are right about those more recent books though. I bough

Le Guin was never forgotten, she was always one of the greats, long before affirmative action came. You are right about those more recent books though. I bought "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" and "A Closed and Common Orbit" and was thoroughly disappointed. Here is somebody, who has clearly great ideas - and is incapable of running with them, like Le Guin did. All problems, all conflict, all interestingness - is carved from the book like a diamond grinded down into a pearl. It always returns to what i would term "emotional pornography", a hugfest - very similar to what firefly became later on. I expect more from my scifi, a lot more, i rather have bad writting- which these books did not have at all. They just dont go anywhere, like Le Guin did. So, while the parent is overgeneralizing, i think he is right here. The Nebula was undeserved in my opinion. If it must be for a woman, give it to Le Guin post mortem.