Ursula Le Guin is an all time great in 'soft' sci-fi. She wrote with an anthropologists acuity in cultural analysis and used the sci-fi universe to speculativel

Ursula Le Guin is an all time great in 'soft' sci-fi. She wrote with an anthropologists acuity in cultural analysis and used the sci-fi universe to speculatively explore societal 'what ifs' should a fundamental premise be changed in some ostensibly minor way. Left Hand of Darkness was one of the only books I read cover to cover, and the cover to cover again. She's a brilliant voice, and in today's fragmented, polarising world, more necessary than ever before. I hope more people read her work