Podcast Episodes featuring Ursula K. Le Guin

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Episode 163: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas")

Very Bad Wizards - May 01, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
David and Tamler are pulled into Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas." Omelas is a truly happy city, except for one child who lives in abominable misery. Is that too high a moral cost? Why do some people walk away from the city? Why does no one help the child? Why does Le Guin...

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Legacy: the Artists Behind the Legends - August 10, 2018 04:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 118 ratings
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an American science fiction novelist, short story writer, poet, activist, and essayist, active from the early 1960s up until her death earlier this year in 2018. In 2016, The New York Times described her as “America’s greatest living science fiction writer”, and in her ...

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Opposable Thumbs - February 14, 2018 16:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Molly Allis is our guest this week! Los Angeles in tha house! Ursula K. Le Guin is our challenge this week. We talk about style and the awesome power of Pee Wee's Playhouse, black holes and sneaker style. We also talked about Jiro Dreams of Sushi, which Rob has not yet seen. Rob read Le Guin's "...

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65. Ursula K. Le Guin / Remembering the Classic Tales of Ray Bradbury

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast - July 25, 2012 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 875 ratings
Science fiction author David Barr Kirtley (Save Me Plz and Other Stories) talks geek culture with guests such as Neil Gaiman (#253), George R. R. Martin (#22), Richard Dawkins (#46), Simon Pegg (#39), Bill Nye (#273), Margaret Atwood (#94), Neil deGrasse Tyson (#32), and Ursula K. Le Guin (#65)....

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Aural Delights No 148 Lucius Shepard plus Ursula K. Le Guin

StarShipSofa - August 11, 2010 03:19 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 299 ratings
Coming Up This Week 01:05 StarShipSofa Interrogation: Ursula K. Le Guin 02:40 Flash Fiction: Toxicity by Erica Naone 02:30 Fact Article: Interview with Lucius Shepard 08:40 Main Fiction: Carlos Manson Lives by Lucius Shepard 01:03:00 Serial: The Barrens Pt1 by F. Paul Wilson 01:25:30 Narra...

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Guests: Ursula K. Le Guin, author, poet & unbeliever & Anne Landman, Colorado Activist

Freethought Radio - October 19, 2009 18:26 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 524 ratings
This weekend's show features a conversation with the legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin, winner of many literary awards and best-known for her classic science fiction and fantasy writing. Also: an interview with Grand Junction, Colo. activist and FFRF member Anne Landman about local attempts to p...

Books written by Ursula K. Le Guin

A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin

24 Episodes - 183 pages - ★★★★ - 182K ratings

Tales from Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin

9 Episodes - 280 pages - ★★★★ - 13.7K ratings

The Tombs of Atuan
Ursula K. Le Guin, Margot Paronis

3 Episodes - 180 pages - ★★★★ - 69.1K ratings

The Farthest Shore
Ursula K. Le Guin

2 Episodes - 197 pages - ★★★★ - 67 ratings

Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
Ursula K. Le Guin

133 pages - ★★★★ - 1.68K ratings

Jane on Her Own
Ursula K. Le Guin, S.D. Schindler

48 pages - ★★★★ - 1.25K ratings

A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic
Margaret Weis, Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, Christopher Stasheff, Mercedes Lackey, Ray Bradbury, Andre Norton, Jack Vance, Raymond E. Feist, C.J. Cherryh, Fritz Leiber, Melanie Rawn, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Larry Niven, Zenna Henderson, Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, Katherine Kurtz, Joe Haldeman, Robert Silverberg, F. Paul Wilson, Keith Birdsong

421 pages - ★★★★ - 129 ratings

Modern Classics of Science Fiction
Gardner Dozois, Damon Knight, R.A. Lafferty, Samuel R. Delany, Brian W. Aldiss, Gene Wolfe, Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr., Ursula K. Le Guin, Edward Bryant, Howard Waldrop, Jack Dann, L. Sprague de Camp, Lucius Shepard, Pat Cadigan, John Kessel, William Gibson, Connie Willis, Michael Swanwick, Bruce Sterling, Theodore Sturgeon, Richard McKenna, Cordwainer Smith, Jack Vance, Edgar Pangborn, Keith Roberts, Roger Zelazny

672 pages - ★★★★ - 88 ratings

Five Complete Novels
Ursula K. Le Guin

579 pages - ★★★★ - 54 ratings

Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings: A Catwings Tale
Ursula K. Le Guin, S.D. Schindler

48 pages - ★★★★ - 20 ratings