Podcast appearances and mentions of ursula k le guin

Ursula K. Le Guin'in Yerdeniz öyküleri serisinin ilk kitabı Yerdeniz Büyücüsü'nde, sisler ve dağlarla çevrili Gont Adası'nda her şey başlar. Gerçek adı henüz söylenmemiş bir çocuk, doğuştan gelen büyü yeteneğini keşfeder. Ama güç uyandıkça, içindeki gölge de büyür.Tüm hakları Ursula K. Le Guin'e aittir. Seslendirme: Ata IşınayMusic:'Unraveling-' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au'Convergence' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au'Memories Of Stone' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au'Balefire' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au-Youtube:⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mitolojikhikayeler⁠⁠⁠

Capítulo 291 de «Audiolibros y Relatos» con la sección El Crítico Cítrico, el spin-off más didáctico y desvergonzado del programa. Hoy, Xavi y el incomparable Emilio Dollar Baby exploran a la fantástica Ursula K. Le Guin y su estupendo relato "Los que se alejan de Omelas". Narrado por Xavi Villanueva y Emilio Dollar Baby Síguenos en Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AudiolibrosyRelatos !Nuevo episodio! Ya puedes disfrutar de EL CRÍTICO CÍTRICO. Ursula K. Le Guin en ABISMOfm.

Elena Chiavi and Amy Perkins are both members of ANNEXE, a collective of four architects formed in 2021 with Kathrin Füglister and Myriam Uzor. The association brings together architects to work on projects with feminist concerns. They curated the Swiss pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and chose to highlight the architect Lisbeth Sachs, in a place where none of the 30 permanent pavilions were designed by women. Elena Chiavi & Amy Perkins reading advices: The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975The Earthsea Cycle, Ursula K. Le Guin, 1968-2001Interview by Solène Hoffmann Cyril Veillon.Production: Archizoom / Art direction and editing: Marie Geiser / Jingle and music: Cédric Liard

Abu⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and Obssa are joined by Cody from the Hugonauts podcast to break down the thought-provoking short story by Ursula K. Le Guin. They explore the moral philosophy at the center of this tale, and debate whether the ones who leave Omelas are worthy or praise or disdain. Check out the Hugonauts podcast: https://hugonauts.simplecast.com/ Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.loreparty.com/science-fiction-book-club⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Keep up with the reading schedule: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://sfbc.netlify.app/schedule⁠⁠ Join the conversation in our free Discord: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/bVrhwWm7j4⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get bonus content and helpful reading materials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/scifibookclubpod⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the Hugonauts we're breaking down what truly defines great Young Adult fiction and answering the ultimate question: do these books actually hold up when you read them for the first time as an adult? We look at the core guidelines of YA literature—from exploring the human condition through a young protagonist's eyes to (ideally) teaching profound stuff that resonates beyond teenhood.  We count down the absolute best YA sci-fi books and YA fantasy recommendations. We dive into legendary dystopian hits like The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, masterclass sci-fi like Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card and Red Rising by Pierce Brown, and classic fantasy staples like Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass, and C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia. But we don't just look at the masterpieces.  We also separate the true YA novels from books that are actually meant for middle-grade kids (like The Giver, Redwall, and The Phantom Tollbooth). Finally, we tackle the controversial "duds" of the genre. Why are massive bestsellers like The Maze Runner, Divergent, and Scythe so incredibly popular, and why did they fall totally flat for us? Grab your reading list and let's find out which books are actually worth your time!  No spoilers anywhere in this episode. Join the Hugonauts book club on discord Or you can watch our episodes on YouTube if you prefer video This episode is sponsored by Memoirs of the End by Vincent Rylan All the books we recommend, plus timestamps: 00:00 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins  04:16 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card  07:02 The Chrysalids by John Wyndham  08:55 SPONSOR - Memoirs of the End by Vincent Rylan  09:30 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline  12:54 Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff  15:20 Red Rising by Pierce Brown  18:47 Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden  20:15 A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket  22:39 The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien  23:56 The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman  26:40 The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis  29:10 The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett  31:38 Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin  34:14 The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King  35:14 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman  36:55 Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling  39:10 Redwall by Brian Jacques 41:17  Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien  41:55 The Giver by Lois Lowry  42:41 The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster  43:34 Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer  44:40 Cinder by Marissa Meyer  45:56 Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix  46:54 How are these duds so popular?

"The dragons! The dragons are avaricious, insatiable, treacherous; without pity, without remorse. But are they evil? Who am I, to judge the acts of dragons?… They are wiser than men are. It is with them as with dreams, Arren. We men dream dreams, we work magic, we do good, we do evil. The dragons do not dream. They are dreams. They do not work magic: it is their substance, their being. They do not do; they are.” -Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore   STARRING - Austin Yorski: https://bsky.app/profile/austinyorski.bsky.social Laura Kate Dale: https://bsky.app/profile/laurakbuzz.bsky.social Quinn Larios: https://bsky.app/profile/rollot.bsky.social   SUPPORT - Patreon.com/AustinYorski Patreon.com/LauraKBuzz Patreon.com/WeeklyMangaRecap   AUDIO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHrF-ZfdwIk Kirby Super Star OC ReMix by TSori & Others: "Until the Next Dance" [Meta Knight: Ending]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeEvMkYAU1o Katherine Cordova - YouTube Dragon Warrior VII OC ReMix by Bluelighter...: "Deeper in the Heart" [Days of Sadness] (#3762) EarthBound OC ReMix by The Vodoú Queen: "Get Down with Your Bad Self, Mr. Saturn!" [Hi Ho] (#4798) Hollow Knight OC ReMix by DaMonz feat. Christine Giguère: "A Dream" [Dirtmouth] (#4884) Mother 3 OC ReMix by Sebastien Skaf: "Your Warmth" [Theme of Love] (#4850) OC ReMix #499: Little Nemo 'Nemo for Strings' [Dream 1: Mushroom Forest] by Gux Zelda: Breath of the Wild OC ReMix by RebeccaETripp...: "Bard in the Rain" [Kass] (#4813)   COMMUNITY - Discord: https://discord.gg/YMU3qUH Wiki: https://dicefunk.ludo.au/

This week, David Streitfeld takes us to Earthsea and the wonderful imagination of Ursula K. Le Guin; and Samantha Ellis on Charlotte Brontë's relationship with material reality.'The Word for World: The maps of Ursula K. Le Guin', edited by So Mayer and Sarah Shin'Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand', by Ursula K. Le Guin'Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats''So Far So Good: Final Poems: 2014-2018''A Larger Reality', edited by Conner Bouchard-Roberts'Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes', by Eleanor HoughtonProduced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode comes from Geoff's request to compare Solarpunk and Permaculture. Suggested reading from this episode: Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin's Kim Stanley Robinson's Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk The anthology: Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World

“Rüyalarından ve Ejderhalarından Vazgeçmeyenlerin Yazarı: Ursula K. Le Guin”Zamansız'ın bu bölümünde Ursula K. Le Guin'i konuştuk.Fatma İnce & Kübra Derin

I dagens avsnitt får Spelhyllan besök från andra sidan Atlanten - självaste Ellinor DiLorenzo hälsar på! Hon berättar om spelet Nordiska Väsen av Fria Ligan, till vilket hon skapat podcast och gett ut en kampanj. Nordiska Väsen är ett spel om skräck i ett svenskt 1800-tal, främst (men inte enbart) baserat på Johan Egerkrans bok med samma namn. Varför är det ett spel som fungerar även på andra sidan havet? Dessutom tips om litteraturklassikern Trollkarlen från Övärlden av Ursula K LeGuin!Kom och lyssna!

Abu⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and Obssa complete their read-through of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. They discuss the lessons from this book about cultural exchange, and what it means to treat others through the lens of "I and Thou". Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.loreparty.com/science-fiction-book-club⁠⁠⁠⁠ Keep up with the reading schedule: ⁠⁠⁠https://sfbc.netlify.app/schedule⁠ Join the conversation in our free Discord: ⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/bVrhwWm7j4⁠⁠⁠ Get bonus content and helpful reading materials: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/scifibookclubpod⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you have ever felt like a failure because the "evidence-based" protocol didn't fix you, or if you are a clinician feeling the crushing weight of a system that rewards compliance over competence—this episode is your validation. The wall is hollow. The science has become science-flavored capitalism. But the real work is still happening in the cracks of the system, in the rooms where two human beings are brave enough to put down the worksheets and simply look at each other. "The way a profession defends a failed paradigm against its own data is the same way a patient defends a failed self-image against their own felt experience." In the explosive penultimate episode of Psychotherapy on the Couch, Joel takes a magnifying glass to the single greatest crisis of modern American psychiatry: the moment the apparatus proved its own foundation was a lie, and then decided to just keep building on it anyway. This episode dives deep into the STAR*D study—a $35 million federal initiative designed to prove the medication-first paradigm worked. It didn't. But instead of changing course, the industry buried the data, ignored the severe suicidality rates, and proceeded to build decades of clinical guidelines on a fiction. This isn't just a story about bad science; it's a clinical case study in institutional dissociation. When the cold machine looks in the mirror and sees a monster, it doesn't change—it just shatters the glass.

The Blasters & Blades PodcastToday we're tackling the classic “meat and potatoes” topic for fantasy fans, the cost of magic. But we went past the just “mana points” and dove into the physical, emotional, and societal toll of wielding power. As readers, we know that power is never free. Whether it's the physical toll of “the burn,” the loss of memories, or the literal sacrifice of life force, the best magic systems are defined by their limits. When magic enters a world, it changes the economy, the politics, and the people. That requires users to also consider the “Check and Balance” systems of speculative fiction. We discuss “Hard” vs. “Soft” magic costs, the psychological burden of wielding god-like power, and how a well-defined price tag prevents magic from becoming a narrative "easy button." It's a deep dive into the mechanics of the miraculous. Join our panel as we dissect how authors like Brandon Sanderson, and Ursula K. Le Guin use the “cost” of magic to create tension, drive character growth, and keep the stakes sky-high. If a wizard can do anything, why doesn't he? We're finding out. This was a fun interview, so go check it out!Co-Hosts:JR Handley (Grunt)Jana S Brown (Chief Shenanigator)We work for free, so if you wanna throw a few pennies our way there is a linked Buy Me A Coffee site where you can do so. Just mention the podcast in the comments when you donate, and I'll keep the sacred bean water boiling!Support the Show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AuthorJRHandleyOur LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/blastersandbladespodcastToday's SponsorTentacles and Tides (ExtraOrdinary Beasts Book 4): https://books2read.com/tentacles-and-tidesCoffee Brand Coffee Affiliate Support the Show: https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=y4GWASiVorJZDb10% Discount Code: PodcastGruntsFollow Jana S Brown on social mediaJana's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jana-S.-Brown/author/B015VJV7JWJana's Website: www.opalkingdompress.comJana's LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/opalkingdompressFollow John M Olsen on social mediaJohn's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/author/johnmolsen John's Website: https://johnmolsen.blogspot.com/ John's Twitter: https://twitter.com/john_m_olsen John's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnsWritingStuffFollow JR Handley on social mediaJR's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/J.-R.-Handley/author/B01N0SEX3AJR's Website: https://jrhandley.com/JR's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sgt.jr.handley JR's Substack: https://jrhandley.substack.com/Follow Kevin Pettway on social mediaKevin's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kevin-Pettway/author/B07YX5G59XKevin's Website: https://kevinpettway.com/Kevin's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kevinpettwayauthor/Follow Melissa McShane on social mediaMelissa's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Melissa-McShane/author/B00TON8E1QMelissa's Website: www.melissamcshanewrites.comMelissa's Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/mcshaneminionsFollow Teri Kay Jobe on social mediaTeri's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Teri-Kay-Jobe/author/B0DG3TPL66Teri's Website: https://terikjobe.com/Teri's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/terikjobe2013#scifishenanigans #scifishenaniganspodcast #bbp #blastersandblades #blastersandbladespodcast #podcast #scifipodcast #fantasypodcast #scifi #fantasy #books #rpg #comics #fandom #literature #comedy #veteran #army #armyranger #ranger #scififan #redshirts #scifiworld #sciencefiction #scifidaily #scificoncept #podcastersofinstagram #scificons #podcastlife #podcastsofinstagram #scifibooks #awardwinningscifi #newepisode #podcastersofinstagram #podcastaddict #podcast #scifigeek #scifibook #sfv #scifivisionaries #firesidechat #chat #panel #fireside #religionquestion #coffee #tea #coffeeortea #CoffeeBrandCoffee #JRHandley #NickGarber #MadamStabby #JanaSBrown #JenaRey #OpalKingdomPress #JohnMOlsen #KevinPettway #MelissaMcShane #WarMistress #WarHamster #Warmaster #TeriKJobe #TheCostOfMagic

Host Meg Wolitzerpresents two stories about characters who find themselves in a place in which they need to make a choice, something that will affect them for the rest of their lives.  In Ursula K. Le Guin's classic, “Direction of the Road,” an ancient being has to make hard choices in its role as a guardian and a force of nature.  The reader is Nikki M. James.  In Helen Schulman's “The Shabbos Goy,” a divorcee and a rabbi develop an interesting relationship around their mutual love of poetry.  The reader is Jessica Hecht. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Margaret discusses your reactions to Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" and "The Day Before the Revolution" with Hazel Acacia and Steven MonacelliSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We hear excerpts of some of our favorite shows from the past two decades, including Gore Vidal, Christopher Hitchens, Ron Reagan, Ursula K. Le Guin, Sara Paretsky, Julia Sweeney, Daniel C. Dennett, Anne Gaylor, Cecile Richards, Ernie Chambers, Steve Benson, Anthony Pinn, Brent Michael Davids, Janeane Garofalo, Leighann Lord, Ann Druyan and Donald C. Johanson.

Abu⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and Obssa continue their read-through of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. They discuss the misunderstanding between Genly and Estraven, and break down the pitfalls of Orgoreyn's bureaucracy. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠https://www.loreparty.com/science-fiction-book-club⁠⁠⁠ Keep the conversation going in our free Discord: ⁠⁠https://discord.gg/bVrhwWm7j4⁠⁠ Get bonus content and helpful reading materials: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/scifibookclubpod⁠⁠ Keep up with the reading schedule: ⁠https://sfbc.netlify.app/schedule Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An exploration of the multifaceted artistic practice of Margret Wibmer, whose work—spanning sculpture, video, photography, and participatory performance—facilitates dynamic, generative relationships between bodies, objects, and spaces. Powerful carriers of both presence and absence, the physically tangible and the unquantifiable, her artworks challenge perceptual and experiential frameworks—inviting us instead to inhabit alternative realities in which objects become subjects, temporalities intertwine, and bodies expand to reveal new forms and intelligence(s). In this wide-ranging conversation, Margret describes her strategies for disorienting the gaze, re-enlivening machine artifacts, and centering love as “a transformative force in a polarized world.” - Margret Wibmer website: https://margretwibmer.eu/ Instagram: @margret_wibmer - Others mentioned in this episode: James Baldwin, Reinhard Braun, John Cage, Ligia Clark, Julia Garimorth, John Halpern, Frida Kahlo, Ursula K Le Guin, Chus Martinez, Suzanne Morianz, Gary Reck , Astrid Roemer, Sae Shimizu, Camila Sposati, Banana Yoshimoto, May Ziadeh. - Image: Detail of a mask from the project Salon d'Amour (2016 and ongoing), photographed by Anastasia Nefedova. - AI Murmurings is a  project of Slow Research Lab Music by the inimitable Christopher Tignor Support for this episode of the podcast generously provided by The Resonance Foundation

Ursula K. Le Guin'in Yerdeniz öyküleri serisinin ilk kitabı Yerdeniz Büyücüsü'nde, sisler ve dağlarla çevrili Gont Adası'nda her şey başlar. Gerçek adı henüz söylenmemiş bir çocuk, doğuştan gelen büyü yeteneğini keşfeder. Ama güç uyandıkça, içindeki gölge de büyür.Tüm hakları Ursula K. Le Guin'e aittir. Seslendirme: Ata Işınay-Youtube:⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mitolojikhikayeler⁠⁠

Who are the greatest science fiction and fantasy authors North America has produced?That's exactly what we're tackling in this episode of Fantasy for the Ages.Today, Jim is ranking the Top 25 North American SFF Authors since 1930, based on quality, influence, success, and overall body of work. That means we're looking at the writers who didn't just tell great stories…

Abu⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and Obssa begin their read-through of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. They discuss incredible impact and legacy of this book on the sci-fi genre, and it's profound explorations of gender and politics. Get bonus content and helpful reading materials: https://www.patreon.com/scifibookclubpod Keep the conversation going in our free Discord: https://discord.gg/bVrhwWm7j4 Watch the video version of this episode: www.youtube.com/@loreparty Keep up with this season's reading schedule: https://tinyurl.com/sfbc-season3⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What happens if you REMOVE every American author from science fiction and fantasy?Do you still have a strong list?Oh yeah… you absolutely do.In this episode of Fantasy for the Ages, we're ranking the Top 25 European SFF Authors since the 1930s—but with one major twist:

Robert meets Sir Isaac Julien at Victoria Miro gallery in London to explore 4 decades of making art. We also meet Julien's long term collaborator Mark Nash to explore his major five-screen film installation All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, 2025 and new photographic works. All That Changes You. Metamorphosis is a vivid, sweeping, visual poem about change, what it means to transform, to adapt and to survive. Commissioned to celebrate 500 years of Palazzo Te, Mantua, Italy (where it is currently on view) and exhibited here for the first time as a five-screen installation, Julien's latest work moves between science fiction, philosophy, ecology and art, imagining new forms of life and identity beyond the human.All That Changes You. Metamorphosis draws inspiration from thinkers who explore how transformation shapes who we are and how we live, including writers Octavia Butler, Naomi Mitchison, Ursula K. Le Guin and philosopher Donna Haraway. Their ideas weave through the film's layered images and lyrical dialogue. Two protagonists are at the heart of the film, played by internationally acclaimed actors Sheila Atim and Gwendoline Christie.Isaac Julien is as acclaimed for his fluent, arresting films as for his vibrant and inventive gallery installations. One of the objectives of his work is to break down the barriers that exist between different artistic disciplines, drawing from and commenting on film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting and sculpture, and uniting them to construct a powerfully visual narrative.Julien came to prominence in the film world with his 1989 drama-documentary Looking for Langston, gaining a cult following with this poetic exploration of Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance. During the past three decades he has made work largely, though not exclusively, for galleries and museums, using multi-screen installations to express fractured narratives exploring memory and desire.Julien's major film installations include Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die), 2022, commissioned by the Barnes Foundation in celebration of its centennial, an immersive five-screen installation exploring the relationship between Dr Albert C. Barnes, who was an early US collector and exhibitor of African material culture, and the famed philosopher and cultural critic Alain Locke, known as the ‘Father of the Harlem Renaissance'; Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass, 2019, a meditation on the life, words, and actions of Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), the visionary African American abolitionist and freed slave, and on the issues of social justice that shaped his life's work; Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement, 2019, reflecting on the iconic work and on the legacy of the visionary modernist architect and designer (1914–1992); PLAYTIME, 2014, which explores the dramatic and nuanced subject of financial capital; Ten Thousand Waves, 2010, exploring China's ancient past and rapidly transforming present through a series of interlocking narratives. Follow @IsaacJulienIsaac Julien's major retrospective opens in Bergamo at gresart671 on 10th April 2026 and he will also showing a single screen version of All That Changes You. Metamorphosis at The Cosmic House in London from 22nd April, learn more here. Special thanks to Victoria Miro gallery. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kitap kulübümüzün 62inci buluşmasında Ursula K. Le Guin'in Kadınlar Rüyalar Ejderhalar adlı kitabını konuştuk.Ursula K. Le Guin, 20. yüzyılın en özgün ve en çok okunan yazarlarından biri. Bilim kurgu ve fantezi edebiyatında adı Tolkien ile birlikte en tepede anılan Le Guin, romanlarıyla olduğu kadar denemeleriyle de edebiyat dünyasına derin bir iz bırakmış bir yazar. Kadınlar, Rüyalar, Ejderhalar, farklı dönemlerde yazdığı deneme ve makalelerinden derlenen bir seçki. Kitap; bilim kurgu ve fantezinin edebiyattaki yeri, hayal gücünün insan için ne anlama geldiği ve kadın olarak yazmak üzerine Le Guin'in tavizsiz, doğrudan sesiyle konuşuyor bize.Bu buluşmada kitabı gerçekten dikkatle sindirmeye çalışarak okuyup gelen arkadaşlarımız vardı. Pek çoğumuz hikayeler veya bir roman beklentisiyle okumaya başlamışız, ama elimizde deneme ve makalelerden oluşan, zihin açıcı bir kitap vardı. Bu yine de çoğumuz için hoş bir sürpriz olmuş.Bizde en çok yankılanan bölümler "Çocuk ve Gölge" ile "Amerikalılar Ejderhalardan Neden Korkar?" oldu. Le Guin'in Jung'dan beslenen "gölge" kavramı üzerine söyledikleri bizi derinden etkiledi: kötülüğü bir sorun olarak değil, bizimle birlikte yaşayan bir gerçek olarak görmek gerektiği fikri. Hayal gücünü reddetmenin insanı kendi iç dünyasından ve doğasından koparttığı üzerine konuştuk. Le Guin'in "Yetişkin bir insan, çocuk olmayan biri değil; yaşamayı başarmış bir çocuktur" cümlesi bunun en iyi fadelerinden biri sanırım.Metin, sessizlik ve müzik üzerine Le Guin'in tespiti de büyük ilgi gördü: müzikte notaları takip etmeden hayal gücümüze alan tanırken, dilde neden aynı özgürlüğü tanımadığımız sorusunu soruyor. Kurgu edebiyatın ise herhangi bir yazılı metinden farkını bu hayale alan açmasıyla açıklıyor. Bu türe mesafeli olanlarımızı bile bu bakış açısıyla bilim kurguya yeniden bakmasını sağladı diyebilirim.Toplantı ilerledikçe söz kaçınılmaz biçimde Le Guin'in feminist perspektifine ve kadın yazarlığına geldi. Yetmişlerde yazılmış satırların bugünün gerçekliğine bu denli dokunması hem şaşırttı hem düşündürdü. Hayal gücünün tarihsel olarak kadınsı ve çocuksu, yani değersiz görülmesi üzerine ciddi bir tartışma yaşandı. Kadının dili — hem anlatan hem dayanışma kuran, hem de var olabilmek için geliştirdiği dil — konuşmamızın merkezine oturdu.Benim açımdan şunu söyleyeyim: Le Guin bu kitapta, bilim kurgunun geleceği tahmin etmek değil, insanın içini anlatmak için var olduğunu söylüyor. Bunu okuyunca gençlerin okumadığını gördüğümde neden içimin burulduğunu daha net anladım. Kitaplar ve hikayeler, insanın kendisiyle ve insanlıkla kurduğu en kadim köprü. Onun yerini alacak başka bir araç yok bence.Bu bölümde görüşlerine yer verebildiğim arkadaşlarım sırasıyla:(03:24) Aycan Acar Şahin, (06:12) Neslihan Oruç, (09:01) Duygu Şahin, (11:33) Feyza Demir, (14:50) Mete Yurtsever, (15:53) Mehpare Şayan Kileci, (20:12) Mete Yurtsever, (21:05) Didem Güçlü İlgün, (25:59) Ebru Vural, (27:06) Feyza Demir ve (31:30) Dilek GeçitSupport the show

Welcome to another LEGENDARY episode of Storybeast! Our Legendaries are special guests who are an expert within their area of storytelling. In this episode, Ghabiba Weston and Courtney Shack have the pleasure of interviewing legendary Premee Mohamed.Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, Ignyte, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Ursula K. Le Guin, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction, and Crawford awards. In 2024, she was the Edmonton Public Library writer-in-residence. She is the author of the ‘Beneath the Rising' series of novels as well as several novellas. Her short fiction has appeared in many venues and she can be found on her website at www.premeemohamed.com.In this episode, you'll hear:about the unity of impressionhow Premee determines if a story idea has legsPremee's way of setting up emotional arcs using an "end-feeling" with short form fiction and how this differs from her approach to novel length storiesabout inspiration and the trick to avoid falling down the rabbit holePremee's approach to writing interiorityPremee's advice on how to hone your writing craftabout Premee's latest book, THE FIRST THOUSAND TREESabout the cool winning of a rockthe easy yet addictive recipe for secret popcorn sauceFor more storytelling content to your inbox,⁠⁠⁠ subscribe to our newsletter. Feel free to reach out if you want to talk story or snacks!A warm thank you to Deore for our musical number. You can find more of her creative work on Spotify.As ever, thank you for listening, Beasties! Please consider leaving a review to support this podcast.Be brave, stay beastly!

Artist Eva Dixon talks about the sophistication of not understanding while making, the potency of found imagery, how our culture is shaping the difference between being seen and being looked at, and more.Eva Dixon (b. 2000) is an Australian artist living in London. Dixon's practice, spanning assemblage, sculpture and painting, explores homo-eroticism in sport and porn, the space race, lesbianism and industry. Horny reimaginings of goal celebrations and tackles play against seductive or kinky materials; aluminium sheets, walnut frames, darkroom filters, buckles, clips and leather straps. Rockets built from stolen street signs and gifted electrical spools. As a collector of things; disused industrial materials, old football and boy-mags, pins and play cards, the material is a key-research point to Dixon. Manipulating each component to spin wild and sometimes racy narratives. Advertisements seeking discreet and specific kinds of sex inform the next stages of Dixon's practice and speak to the loss of historical artefacts in the wider LGBTQ+ community, where fictioning is a prevalent tool passed down through generations.Dixon is a graduate of Central Saint Martins, completing a BA in Fine Art (Hons) in 2023. Recent significant exhibitions include solo presentations SCORE! at Split Rivera (2025), Mercury 13 at WIP Space (2025), and Lesbian Trucker Paintings at The Fores Project (2023). Notable duo exhibitions include Lands End (2024) and the 2026 duo exhibition Top Dog at Parlour Gallery, alongside presentations at Saatchi Gallery, Christie's and Rose Easton. In 2023, they were a recipient of the Maison/0 This Earth award with LVMH and recently was awarded 'Best UK solo presentation' at Minor Attractions. Eva's Instagram: @evadixon.pngReference links:Merlin JamesIan KiaerJesse DarlingGray WielebinskiSigmar PolkeW.P. Wakefield (hardware store)Phyllida BarlowSusan Sontag, Notes on “Camp” (1964)Richard Serra, Verb List (1967)Ada LovelaceAnaïs Nin, Delta of Venus (1977)Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)Octavia E. Butler, Kindred (1979)Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974)Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17 (1966)Episode cover art: “Throttle”, 2025, Polycarbonate Panelling, Screws, Stickers, Cards, Brackets, Metallic Insulation Tape, Fabric Tape and Engraving on Stretcher, 140 x 100cmSupport People Painting

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit chrisryan.substack.comIn this one we talk about our reactions to “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” by Ursula K. LeGuin. Is there any walking away? What are we walking away from? Is there a way to live in this world without the stain of guilt and corruption? What does it mean to be in the world but not of it?

fWotD Episode 3227: Paradises Lost Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia's finest articles.The featured article for Friday, 6 March 2026, is Paradises Lost.Paradises Lost is a science fiction novella by American author Ursula K. Le Guin. It was first published in 2002 as a part of the collection The Birthday of the World. It is set during a multigenerational voyage from Earth to a potentially habitable planet. The protagonists, Liu Hsing and Nova Luis, are members of the fifth generation born on the ship. The story follows them as they deal with members of a religious cult who believe the ship ought not to stop at its intended destination. They also face a crisis brought on by a drastic change in the ship's schedule. The novella has since been anthologized as well as adapted into an opera of the same name.The novella explores the isolation brought on by space travel, as well as themes of religion and utopia. It contains elements of ecocriticism, or a critique of the idea that human beings are altogether separate from their natural environment. The novella and the collections in which it was published received high praise from commentators. For its generation ship setting and examination of utopia, critics compared it to other Le Guin works such as "Newton's Sleep", and The Telling, as well as to the works of Gene Wolfe and Molly Gloss. Scholar Max Haiven described the novella as "a chastening lesson in both the potential and the perils of freedom", while author Margaret Atwood said that it "shows us our own natural world as a freshly discovered Paradise Regained, a realm of wonder".This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:56 UTC on Friday, 6 March 2026.For the full current version of the article, see Paradises Lost on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm standard Emma.

Benvenuti su Bookatini 2.0 - il podcast per chi è ghiotto di libri.L'ospite di questa puntata è Valentina, appassionata lettrice e host del podcast Gossip Green Podcast che potete ascoltare qui https://open.spotify.com/show/13MbyPwMPlDO6UCp4CVeUN?si=rj3c8YGBSRqp8FleySuF0A qui https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/gossip-green-podcast/id1809340412 e che trovate sul sito https://gossipgreenpodcast.my.canva.site/ e alla pagina instagram https://www.instagram.com/gossipgreen_podcastInsieme abbiamo chiacchierato di alcune delle nostre più recenti letture ovvero:- "Primavera silenziosa", Rachel Carson, Feltrinelli Editore- "Il cottage degli uccelli", Eva Meijer, Nottetempo Editore- "La saga di Terramare, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mondador- "Le vite di ieri", Marta Mulè e Francesco Salvatore, Galluzzi EditorePotete contattarmi, scrivere commenti, suggerimenti, domande e condividre con me le vostre letture su questo tema contattandomi alla pagina Instagram Bookatini_podcast.Se volete sostenermi e godere di contenuti aggiuntivi, potete unirvi a 4 possibili livelli di Patreon che trovate al link: https://www.patreon.com/bookatiniLa sigla di Bookatini è scritta e suonata da Andrea Cerea

Your hosts get a little political with The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. They compare it to some of her other Earthsea series, enjoy the overall humanitarian message, and point out a few (startlingly few) areas where it didn't age as well.Thanks to the following musicians for the use of their songs:- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”- Josh Woodward for the use of “Electric Sunrise”Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

Lords: Tyriq Watson Topics: My sleep experience over the holiday Esper says: "Cannabis can definitely help one get into a sleep state, but actually degrades the quality of sleep quite a bit. From personal experience my guess is this has to do with how it affects dreams, often precluding them from happening to begin with." Conlanging taught me how to judge good art Tate mode The Tyger, by William Blake https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger Microtopics: Scrubbin' Trubble The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Leguin. Changing history by dreaming about it and having a hypnotherapist that's trying to change your dreams. Telling artists that you like them vs. telling them that you like your work. Learning how to take compliments. Three people who could have opinions. Spoilers for early January. Trying to sleep on an airplane and training yourself to be unable to sleep at all. A highly suboptimal experience. Untraining the fear of falling asleep on planes from your body. How to wear a neck pillow, maybe. Sleeping sitting up and your head nodding forward as you fall asleep. Neck pillow instructions dot PDF. How to transport a neck pillow. Hyperfixation on sleep and the consequences of not getting it. Mythbusters Mode. If you can't sleep, how helpful is it to pretend to be asleep? Being woken up by the sensation of all your senses shutting down as you fall asleep. Skipping your consciousness off of the surface of sleep. Getting super stoked when you're about to fall asleep and waking yourself up because you're so excited. Problems solved with more coffee vs. problems solved with more coffee tables. Lingthusiasm. Cursing yourself to hate a beloved movie series by watching it on a plane. Psychosomatic self-curses. Linguistics and conlangs. The guy everyone hires to con a lang for a movie. Judging things based on whether you like it vs. judging things based on whether it achieved the creator's goals. Learning a new framing and applying it to everything. Being aware of your frame and communicating your frame to the listener. Lojban. Lojban as a wholly unnatural way to speak in the same way that ballet is a wholly unnatural way to move. Decent and not unaesthetic. Trying to draw a picture without knowing how to hold a pencil. Birds with extra vocal tracts. Birdlangs. What if parrots evolved to be sentient, except in a fantasy world, because reasons. Ascertaining the borders of your caring. Brandon Sanderson doing Brandon Sanderson things. The IPA of sounds a human can perform live on a modular synthesizer. To create Hatsune Miku, you must first invent the universe. Horizontal vs. vertical scanlines. Designing a CRT that can scan either horizontally or vertically. Delta gun tubes with a triad of phosphor dots. Having a vertical monitor to display tall things. Page-shaped-pages. Games that ship as a rectangle on a web site. Black frame insertion. Do modern LCD displays have ghosting? A very intimidating challenge. A very fun nexus of art and programming. Tate Mode vs. Tate Modern. Tate your owl for science. Whether this poem predates the Great Vowel Shift. Mixing ands and ampersands. Capital Ampersand. Seeing an animal and realizing that this is it, this is the one that's meant to eat me. A glowing golden perfect human that everyone instantly hates and wants to eat. Whether you can invent a tiger in Dwarf Fortress.

Ursula K. Le Guin gehört zu den bedeutendsten Science-Fiction-Autorinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ihre feministischen Geschichten regen immer wieder zum Nach- und Umdenken an. Mit dem Erzählband "Der Tag der Revolution" kann man sie jetzt neu entdecken. Lehmkuhl, Tobias www.deutschlandfunk.de, Büchermarkt

It's the first episode of the Spring 2026 Season, and John and Ben are blasting off to the moon of Annares to discuss "The Dispossessed" by Ursula K. Le Guin. We discuss this classic of science fiction with a little help from "To Read 'The Dispossessed'" by Samuel Delany. Topics of conversation include John & Ben's relationship with Le Guin's work, her anthropological lens, and portrayals of gender & sexuality in science fiction. As always, we hope you enjoy the conversation!We'll be back in two weeks with a paired episode focusing on Samuel Delany's "Trouble on Triton"!

Bunkere, klimakrise og flugt fra ansvar Bogen foregår 10-20 år ude i fremtiden, men ligner vores verden skræmmende meget. Bare værre. Tre tech-oligarker – tydelige parodier på Bezos, Zuckerberg og Musk – har monopol på logistik, sociale medier og teknologi. Og de har travlt med at bygge private bunkere i stedet for at løse klimakrisen. Her møder vi Lai Zhen, survivalist-influencer og tidligere flygtning fra Hong Kongs kollaps. Hendes filosofi er klar: Individualisme er for tåber. Små grupper, samarbejde og planlægning er vejen til overlevelse. Ikke bunkere fyldt med våben og mistillid. Om forfatteren: Naomi Alderman Naomi Alderman (f. 1974) er en britisk forfatter med rødder i London og en akademisk baggrund fra Oxford, hvor hun læste filosofi, politik og økonomi. Hendes debutroman Disobedience (2006) blev hurtigt anerkendt for sit modige blik på religion og seksualitet, men det var The Power (2016), der for alvor sendte hende ind på science fiction-radaren. The Power forestiller sig en verden, hvor piger pludselig udvikler evnen til at slå med elektriske stød – og samfundets magtbalancer tipper dramatisk. Romanen blev både en prisvinder (bl.a. Women's Prize for Fiction) og senere tv-serie (Amazon Prime). The Future (2023) viser tydeligt hendes dobbeltblik: Kyndig satiriker overfor Silicon Valleys vildskaber, men også romanforfatter med blik for både filosofi, samfund og fremtidens etiske spørgsmål. Naomi Alderman på Wikipedia Digital enclosure – Vores fælles data bliver stjålet af de få Man mærker Aldermans skarpe samfundsblik, når Badger – non-binært barn af en tech-CEO – forklarer konceptet “digital enclosure”. Det er en reference til de historiske enclosure-bevægelser i England, hvor overklassen lukkede fællesarealer og gjorde dem til privat ejendom. Tech-giganterne har gjort det samme med vores data, vores opmærksomhed, vores fællesskab. De har taget noget der tidligere tilhørte os alle – adressebøger, købshistorik, vores bevægelser, vores billeder – og gjort det til private data-chunks som de tjener formuer på. AUGR – AI’en der forudsiger dommedag Central i plottet er AUGR, en prædiktiv AI der skal fortælle de rige, præcis hvornår de skal flygte til deres bunkere. Ti dage før katastrofen rammer. For hvis de venter for længe, vil folk ikke lade dem flygte. Så timing er alt. Men AUGR dukker også mystisk op på Lai Zhens telefon og begynder at guide hende. Hvem styrer egentlig AUGR? Og hvad er planen? Bogen folder sig ud som et urværk – med flashbacks, posts fra et prepper-forum kaldet “Name The Day”, og kapitler der hopper mellem perspektiver.. Der er et afgørende twist, der kom som en total overraskelse, men som vi ikke skal spoile her. Enochites og ræven og kaninen Martha Einkorn bærer sin barndom med sig. Hun voksede op i en kult, hvor teknologien var forbudt, og hvor faderen Enoch insisterede på, at den moderne civilisation tog fejl, allerede da vi begyndte at dyrke jorden og gøre krav på territorium. Hans “Sermon of the Rabbit and the Fox” vender det klassiske ræv/kanin-motiv på hovedet. Her symboliserer kaninen ikke uskyldig sårbarhed – men netop de første, der bosatte sig, hegnede af, og indførte ideen om meningsløst ejerskab af land. Ræven er jæger-samleren, den, som lever i nuet og tilpasser sig landskabet uden at forsøge at eje det. For Enoch er tanken om at eje jord lige så absurd som at eje luft: Jorden tilhører dig kun, så længe du tager vare på den. Luften kun, så længe den er i dine lunger. Tech-oligarkerne i The Future er overvældet af kanin-mentalitet, der er gået til yderligheder: De indhegner og griber alt, og forsøger at sikre sig mod fremtidens farer gennem privatisering og massive forråd, frem for at stole på fællesskab og samarbejde. Når de rige ikke kan samarbejde Bogens centrale pointe er brutalt enkel: De ultrarige kan ikke redde verden, fordi de fundamentalt ikke tror på samarbejde. Selv når de tre tech-bosserne sidder på en ø sammen i livsfare, vælger de sabotage, mistillid og vold. Lai Zhen anbefaler samarbejde i små grupper. Enoch prædikede fællesskab med naturen. Men milliardærerne? De tror kun på sig selv og deres våben. Så selvom de har ressourcerne til at løse klimakrisen, bruger de dem på bunker-byggeri. Alderman sparer ikke på kritikken. Bogen er både thriller, satire og politisk essay. Den stiller spørgsmålet: Hvorfor skal nogen have lov til at være så rige? Hvad godt gør det? Vurderingen Jens: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (fem stjerner). Det er et utroligt stykke urværk. Perfekt crafted underholdning med masser af yndlingsting – den kunne laves til en vild serie. Og så synes jeg digital enclosure-pointen var super godt set. En bog til tiden. Anders: ⭐⭐⭐⭐(⭐) (fire-og-en-halv stjerner). Virkelig underholdt. Velskrevet, cool, tankevækkende. Men karaktererne var ikke helt så stærke – de føles alle lidt som Aldermans egen stemme. Hvis jeg kunne give 4,5 ville jeg. Men den gør alt det rigtige på det rigtige tidspunkt. Jens og Anders har SCIFI SNAKKET The Future. Shownotes til episoden om The Future Siden sidst Anders Er færdig med Pluribus – virkelig speciel serie med fantastisk stemning. Ray Seehorn er crazy dygtig. Har set Oppenheimer igen – fantastisk film, ikke meget sci-fi, men vi læste jo en bog om ham. Har læst Ship of Fools af Richard Paul Russo – om et generationsrumskib der finder et mystisk alien-rumskib. Virkelig stemningsfuld, med mindelser om Alien 3 og Stanislav Lem. Er i gang med Clade af James Bradley – klimadystopi med fokus på familiedrama gennem flere årtier. Tak til Jens for Calibre-plugin info – har nu fået konverteret alle sine Kindle og Kobo-bøger til epub. Jens Er færdig med sæson 1 af Pluribus på Apple TV – om Carol alene i en verden hvor alle andre er blevet til en hive mind. Meget tilfredsstillende slutning. Ser sæson 2 af Fallout på Amazon Prime – baseret på computerspillet som skaber en fantastisk verden som nærmest er en blanding af Hugh Howey’s Wool og Mad Max. Mega fed. Er begyndt at købe bøger på ebook.de i stedet for Kobo, da de ofte er meget billigere. Ripper DRM’en af og håndterer dem i Calibre. Jeg anser det for en politisk handling og at vi har lov til at eje ebøger fuldt og helt. Lytternes input Maibritt takkede for Star Maker-episoden: “Det lyder som om podcasten tog en for holdet her – tak for det

Welcome to my first episode of 2026, wherein you will hear some audio unboxings, I talk about improving my reading habits, and my in-house book reviewer, Fox Loves Carrots (formerly known as Little Munchkin), returns to talk about Carlos Sanchez's Rune: The Tale of a Thousand Faces. Featuring: Helluva Town - Cartoon Gangster RPG from Achron Games, Cosmic Dark by Graham Walmsley, The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin, A Dreamer's Tales by Lord Dunsany, Bound In Flesh: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror edited by Lor Gislason. Find the Movie Monday Letterboxd list here https://letterboxd.com/the39thman/list/movie-monday-1/This month Movie Monday is dark fantasy action comedy The Golden Child from 1986. Directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Eddie Murphy. That episode will air on January 26th, so please send your submissions by the 24th if you'd like to be included in the show.Also, be sure not to miss the new podcast I'm involved with, entitled With Wife and I. Isla and I take turns choosing movies to watch together, then share our thoughts with anyone who cares to listen. “Warning” by Lieren of Updates From the Middle of Nowhere Leave me an audio message via ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/KeepOffTheBorderlands You can email me at spencer.freethrall@gmail.com, follow me on BlueSky @freethrall.bsky.social or look me up on Discord by searching for freethrall You can also hear me in actual plays on Grizzly Peaks Radio and find me in a bunch of other places here ⁠https://freethrall.carrd.co⁠ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit freethrall.substack.com

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Sci-Fi author Christian Hurst, the creator of the best-selling space opera series 'Lily Starling' chats with me about emotional exploration and using metaphor in 'Fantastic' science fiction writing. He discusses Ursula K. Le Guin's work, mentions 'Arrival' (the 2016 American science fiction drama starring Amy Adams), and together we think about time loops, communicating with extra terrestrials, the definition of courage, and even the world of Horton Hears a Who! 

Authors Michelle Ruiz Keil and Juhea Kim discuss Ursula K. Le Guin's legacy through exploration of pacifism and environmentalism in her works.

On this episode of Currently Reading, Meredith and Kaytee are discussing: Bookish Moments: overwhelming feelings when reading and finding book twins Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: how to organize all the book recommendation sources we come across The Fountain: we visit our perfect fountain to make wishes about our reading lives Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site). .  .  .  2:09 - Our Bookish Moments of the Week 4:25 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 8:40 - @kaitlynmlilly on instagram 8:41 - @klill01 on TikTok 9:22 - God of the Woods by Liz Moore 10:43 - Our Current Reads 10:49 - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Kaytee)  11:15 - The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin 15:25 - Life, and Death, and Giants by Ron Rindo (Meredith) 16:35 - Katabasis by R.F. Kuang 20:06 - Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves (Kaytee) 20:13 - The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt 26:30 - Forensics by Val McDermid (Meredith) 27:46 - Foyles 32:53 - I, Medusa by Ayana Gray (Kaytee) 33:03 - Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes 35:04 - Beast of Prey by Ayana Gray 36:40 - The Creeping Hand Murder by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper (Meredith) 38:11 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson  38:17 - Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper 41:09 - Murdle by G.T. Karber  42:34 - Organizing Recommendation Sources 43:56 - Currently Reading Patreon 47:21 - @kaitlynmlilly on instagram 48:18 - Fabled Bookshop 51:44 - Literally, A Bookshop 52:37 - Goodreads 52:38 - The Storygraph 57:44 - Meet Us At The Fountain 57:49 - I wish we gave ourselves grace to start small in our reading lives. (Kaytee) 59:04 - I wish you all knew that you can sort podcasts from oldest to newest in Apple Podcasts. (Meredith) 1:01:27 - Crime Time FM podcast   Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. December's IPL is a recap of the year with Kaytee and Meredith. Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business.  All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller From the Editor's Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

Neste episódio especial Arthur Marchetto e Cecilia Garcia Marcon se reúnem para compartilhar as leituras do próximo ano. Eles compartilham alguns títulos que desejam ler em 2026… mas também o momento mais aguardado!! A apresentação oficial da seleção de livros que comporão o Clube de Leitura 30:MIN de 2026!Então, aperta o play e conta pra gente: o que vocês vão ler em 2026?---Livros citadosLavínia, de Ursula K. Le Guin (ed. Morro Branco, trad. Helena Coutinho)Sobre o cálculo do volume, de Solvej Baelle (ed. Todavia, trad. Guilherme da Silva Braga)Raul Seixas: Não diga que a canção está perdida, de Jotabê Medeiros (ed. Todavia)Alerta Vermelho, Condição Artificial & Protocolo Rebelde (série Diário do robô-assassino), de Martha Wells (ed. Aleph, trad. Laura Pohl)Tress, a garota do Mar Esmeralda, de Brandon Sanderson (ed. Trama, trad. Pedro Ribeiro)Contos Completos & O lugar sem limites, de José Donoso (ed. Mundaréu, trad. Bruno Colbachini Mattos/Lucas Lazzaretti)---Clube do Livro 30:MIN 2026Janeiro - Meu ano de descanso e relaxamento, de Ottessa Moshfegh (ed. Todavia, trad. Juliana Cunha)Fevereiro - Kitchen, de Banana Yoshimoto (ed. Estação Liberdade, trad. Lica Hashimoto, Fabio Saldanha & Lui Navarro)Março - Berg, de Ann Quinn (ed. DBA, trad. Gisele Eberspächer)Abril - Os pescadores, de Chigozie Obioma (ed. Globo Livros, trad. Claudio Carina)Maio - Feito Bestas, de Violaine Bérot (ed. Mundaréu, trad. Letícia Mei)Junho - Erva brava, de Paulliny Tort (ed. Fósforo)Julho - Te dei os olhos e olhaste as trevas, de Irene Solà (ed. Mundaréu, trad. Luis Reyes Gil)Agosto - Kim Jiyoung, nascida em 1982, de Cho Nam-Joo (ed. Intrínseca, trad. Alessandra Esteche)Setembro - Carva viva, de Ana Rüsche (ed. Rocco)Outubro - República luminosa, de Andrés Barba (ed. Todavia, trad. Antonio Xerxenesky)Novembro - Memórias do cacique, de Raoni Metyktire (ed. Cia. das Letras)Dezembro - Porrada, de Rita Bullwinkel (ed. Todavia, trad. Marcela Lanius)---Links⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apoie o 30:MIN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Siga a gente nas redes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Já apoia? Acesse suas recompensas⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Confira todos os títulos do clube!

While Lawson's voice recovers, enjoy a full episode from our patreon, wherein Joe from the Spirit Hunters helps him & Hannah understand what happened with this Ursula K. Le Guin adaptation, directed by Hayao Miyazaki's son, Goro. To listen to us review the GOOD Miyazaki films, support us at patreon.com/bospod

Reginald is on a grand turkey saving journey, but luckily he has Dom and Jessie Gender to hold down the podcast fort! This episode they unpack the true nature of The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin.This podcast, like Dom's videos, sometimes touches on the foul language, violence, assaults, and murders in the books we read. Treat it like a TV-14 show.For the full episode with video, and bonus content, check out Dom's Patreon:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DomSmithWhere to find Jessie:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/lostrekkieNebula: https://nebula.tv/jessiegenderTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jessiegenderTwitter: @jessiegenderInstagram: @jessiegenderPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/jessiegenderWhere to find Dom:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Dominic-NobleWebsite: https://www.dominic-noble.com/Second channel: https://www.youtube.com/@domnobletoo8238Twitter: @Dominic_Noble Instagram: @dominic_nobleMerch:https://www.teespring.com/stores/domi...For information about sponsoring a video, convention appearances and similar business inquiries please contact my representation at dominicnoble@viralnationtalent.comEditor:Sophia Ricciardiwww.sophiakricci.com Music:“European Waltz” performed by Il NeigeYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DJilneige

Lords: * Esper * Cort Topics: * Building your identity around a thing that you're kind of not as excited about lately * Stateless procedural music * Hulu can't decide whether it has X-Files * Offering, by Ursula K Le Guin * https://fleurmach.com/2016/09/28/ursula-k-le-guin-offering-2012/ Microtopics: * Figuring out new ways to make video games more expensive. * Puzzled Pint. * Oh man, this one's a real quart! * Puzzled Pint getting you through to the next MIT Mystery Hunt. * Blippo Plus. * If you're going to watch TV, why not watch TV from another dimension? * Capturing broadcast artifacts and CRT fuzz on a 1-bit display. * An amateur DSPist. (Such as myself.) * Whether Lucas Pope took time away from his busy life as a pirate actuary to make a video about temporally-stable dithering. * Dr. Richard Garfield, who loves lasagna and hates Mondays. * Final Fantasy espers vs. Magic the Gathering espers. * All the different licenses Wizards of the Coast is using to fuck up Magic the Gathering. * How to play Magic the Gathering without getting your ass kicked by a SpongeBob deck. * Splitbeard, my nemesis. * The Kickstarter backer tier that nobody pledged to get. * Jim's beard braids, still floating around in a Ziploc bag somewhere. * Electroswing Jackson. * Trying to continue to evolve as an artist after you named yourself Chrono Trigger Remix DJ. * A sci-fi weird constructed zone. * The guy on the team who comes up with names like "banalia" * Fake scam Oxford English Dictionaries. * A Finn named Viznut. * The C program on Viznut's business card. * Recognizing the twelfth root of two in an obfuscated C program. * Bytebeat. * Generating audio in ShaderToy. * A closed form function of T that produces the Terminator theme. * Learning how to put GLSL into the GPU. * Needing the preceding 200 samples to produce the current sample so you just start at T-200 and start crunching numbers. * The oldest film on Netflix. (From 1987.) * Trying to finish X-Files before it leaves your streaming service. * Esper's power over the Futurama production schedule. * Why would you attack and dethrone God when you could summon God to help you fight a slime? * Trying to summon your god in a tough JRPG battle and she's like "not right now I'm editing a podcast." * Trying to describe a vocal sample without saying what the voice is saying. * The bitrate itself shaping new phonemes. * Wahoo vs. wahey vs. waheh. * The great darkness where sleep goes and farther death goes. * The gods choking on all the dreams you forget. * The dump trucks of tasteless gruel keep coming. * How to prevent the data miners determining exactly how far the mystery goes. * You Can't Data Mine Fallen London. * The character who doesn't exist in the game, only the game data files, because he erased himself. * Media where you can predict how much longer the story goes and media where you can't. * The forty second episode of Topic Lords. * The episode of Game Changer that had the fake "end of video" screen before the episode continues. * Hitting tab to switch to the next field. * Hitting tab to highlight the secret clickable button. * Bittorrenting all eight hours of Bandersnatch and watching every scene in random order. * How many names does a Seaman know? * Escaping the internet. * Binge watching the PiCoSteveMo development thread.

Sample samsa with Naomi Kritzer as we discuss why a friend stepped up to start submitting stories for her, the question she asked Madeleine l'Engle when she was nine, why she spent years not reading reviews (even the good ones), her surprise at the way "Cat Pictures Please" went viral, what it's like when you're on "that" panel at a convention, why she wishes she'd told the early editors to whom she'd submitted how young she was, the many writers time has passed by (and how we hope neither of us will join them), what she was told by her mentor after confessing she wanted to be Ursula K. Le Guin, the story she sold to a market by deliberately writing the sort of story that magazine said it didn't want, the inability of writers to know which of their stories will resonate most with readers, whether the stories she's written in response to prompts might have existed in some other form without those prompts, how our writing has been affected by the times in which we live, and much more.

Whether you like ripping page turners, incredible characters, books that make you laugh out loud, exploring unforgettable new worlds, or literary books that will make you see the world in a new way, there's a great intro to scifi out there for everyone!Join the Hugonauts book club on discord to tell us about your favorite time travel booksOr you can watch the episode on YouTube if you prefer videoIf you want to jump around, here are the timestamps for all the books we talked about: 00:00 Intro 00:38 Incredible Characters - Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold 3:07 A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers 4:04 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 4:52 Unforgettable Worlds - The Expanse by James S.A. Corey 6:58 Hyperion by Dan Simmons 8:24 House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds 9:20 Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky 10:56 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman 12:22 Funny SF - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 13:36 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 14:50 Old Man's War by John Scalzi 16:01 Page turners - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 17:43 Dark Matter or Recursion by Blake Crouch 18:52 All Systems Red by Martha Wells 20:01 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 21:35 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 22:34 Literary SciFi - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin 24:55 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 26:26 The Road by Cormac McCarthy 27:49 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 28:40 Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein

111 Hz'in bu bölümünde, Ursula K. Le Guin'in kült bilimkurgu romanı Rüyanın Öte Yakası dünyasına gidiyor; gerçekliği rüyalarıyla değiştirebilen George Orr ve onun idealist terapisti Dr. Haber'la tanışıyoruz. Acaba iyileştirme arzusu, tehlikeli şekilde tanrıcılık oynamaya dönebilir mi? Güç zehirlenmesi ve narsisizm arasındaki farklar üzerinden; kusursuzluk istemine karşı karanlıkta dahi akışta kalabilmek mümkün mü, sorusuna cevap arıyoruz.  Sunan: Barış Özcan Hazırlayan: Maya Gedik, Gülşah Dim Ses Tasarım ve Kurgu: Metin Bozkurt Yapımcı: Podbee Media Tüm bölümler ve daha fazlası için ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠podbeemedia.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠'u ziyaret et! ----- Podbee Sunar ------- Bu podcast reklam içermektedir.

When the polymorphous writer Ursula K. Le Guin died in 2018, she left behind novels, short stories, poetry, essays, manifestos and French and Chinese translations. The huge and loyal readership among children and older readers that she built during her lifetime has only grown since her death, as has recognition of her work as ‘serious' literature. Chafing against her confinement in genre fiction, she liberated sci-fi, fantasy and YA literature from the condescension to which they had long been subjected. In 2016, she joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetime by the Library of America. For the final regular episode of Fiction and the Fantastic (though there will be one more special episode) Marina and Chloe read ‘The Left Hand of Darkness' and ‘The Dispossessed': works of exceptional imaginative power and intellectual range, passionate idealism and keen-eyed observation. Is Le Guin's status in both literary and ‘genre' canons a testament to the force and clear-sightedness of her radical – even prophetic – political vision? And what does it mean for the fantastic if we accept her self-characterisation as a ‘realist of a larger reality'? Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen to the full episode, and all our other Close Readings series, subscribe: Directly in Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/applecrff⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ In other podcast apps: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lrb.me/closereadingsff⁠⁠⁠⁠ Further reading and listening from the LRB: Colin Burrow on Ursula K. Le Guin: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n02/colin-burrow/it-s-not-jung-s-it-s-mine A collection of writing on science fiction from the LRB: https://www.lrb.co.uk/collections/in-hyperspace Amia Srinivasan on Le Guin's experiments with pronouns: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n13/amia-srinivasan/he-she-one-they-ho-hus-hum-ita Colin Burrow discusses Le Guin with Thomas Jones on the LRB Podcast: https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/magical-authority Next episode: A taxonomy of fantastic literature with Marina, Adam Thirlwell and Edwin Frank.

For the Paris-born, New York–based artist Camille Henrot, time practically never stands still. Across her work in film, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation—and soon, live performance—Henrot has developed ways of stretching and distorting time, seamlessly shifting from moments of potent, rapid-fire intensity to quiet reflection. While her work carries a theory-driven ferocity and intelligence, it's also incredibly playful. Hers is serious art that manages—often with a knowing, subtle wink—to not take itself too seriously.On this episode of Time Sensitive, Henrot considers the subjectivity of speed and slowness; previews her upcoming first-ever performance-art piece, slated to premiere in 2026 and a collaboration with the nonprofit Performa; and reflects on why, for her, a work is technically never finished. She also shares her fraught fascination with animals, childhood, and the climate crisis—the intersection of which she examines in-depth in her soon-to-debut film “In the Veins.”Special thanks to our Season 12 presenting sponsor, Van Cleef & Arpels.Show notes:Camille Henrot[4:30] RoseLee Goldberg[4:30] Performa Biennial[6:37] Buster Keaton[6:37] Tex Avery[7:03] Estelle Hoy[7:19] Adam Charlap Hyman of Charlap Hyman & Herrero[16:10] “In the Veins” (2026)[17:45] "Grosse Fatigue"[17:45] Massimiliano Gioni[38:51] Roland Barthes[45:36] Pierre Huyghe[47:51] Ikebana Sogetsu[51:46] Okwui Enwezor[55:03] Hypernormalisation by Adam Curtis (2016)[59:51] Jacob Bromberg[59:51] Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh[1:08:50] Adrienne Rich[1:08:50] Ursula K. Le Guin[1:08:50] Annie Ernaux[1:08:50] Mother Reader by Moyra Davey (2001)[1:08:50] Jenny Schlenzka[1:10:14] Maggie Nelson[1:11:02] Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose (2019)[1:11:02] Representation of Motherhood by Donna Bassin (1994)[1:13:00] Louise Bourgeois

He wrote the definitive history of Indian wrestling. His longform reportage has taken him into strange territories. He embedded himself with the Delhi police and has now come out with his first crime novel. Rudraneil Sengupta joins Amit Varma in episode 429 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about he throws himself into both his life and his work. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Rudraneil Sengupta on Instagram, Twitter, Mint and Amazon. 2. The Beast Within -- Rudraneil Sengupta. 3. Enter the Dangal -- Rudraneil Sengupta. 4. The Girl From Haryana -- Amit Varma's feature story on Sakshi Malik (2016). 5. Aadha Gaon — Rahi Masoom Raza. 6. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen. 7. From Cairo to Delhi With Max Rodenbeck — Episode 281 of The Seen and the Unseen. 8. Kind of Blue -- Miles Davis. 9. Wall-E -- Andrew Stanton. 10. The Complete Adventures of Feluda (Volume 1) (Volume 2) -- Satyajit Ray. 11. The Adventures Of Kakababu -- Sunil Gangopadhyay. 12. More Adventures Of Kakababu -- Sunil Gangopadhyay. 13. Sandesh. 14. Paar -- Goutam Ghose. 15. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? -- Philip K Dick. 16. Philip K Dick and Ursula K Le Guin on Amazon. 17. Sandman -- Neil Gaimon. 18. Persepolis -- Marjane Satrapi. 19. The Buddha -- Osamu Tezuka. 20. The Solitary Writer Meets the Impossible Man -- Episode 428 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Narayani Basu). 21. A Man For All Seasons: The Life Of KM Panikkar — Narayani Basu. 22. Understanding India Through Its Languages — Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan). 23. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages — Peggy Mohan. 24. Frank Zappa, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Muddy Waters and Django Reinhardt on Spotify. 25. Satyaki Banerjee and Paban Das Baul on Spotify. 26. The Indianness of Indian Food — Episode 95 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vikram Doctor). 27. The Refreshing Audacity of Vinay Singhal — Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen. 28. Stage.in. 29. Tom Waits, Mark Strand and Mary Oliver. 30. The Golden Age of Murder -- Martin Edwards. 31. Roseanna -- Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. 32. Ian Rankin (of Inspector Rebus fame) on Amazon. 33. Six Four -- Hideo Yokoyama. 34. Raag Darbari -- Shrilal Shukla (translated by Gillian Wright). 35. Saans -- Neena Gupta. 36. Anne Tyler on Amazon. 37. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -- Hunter S Thompson. 38. The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved -- Hunter S Thompson. 39. The Life and Times of Gurcharan Das -- Episode 425 of The Seen and the Unseen. 40. Meet Suyash Dixit, the man who would be king -- Rudraneil Sengupta. 41. The Autopsy Report -- Rudraneil Sengupta. 42. Court -- Chaitanya Tamhane. 43. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind -- Gustave Le Bon. 44. Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison. 45. The Is-Ought Problem and the Naturalistic Fallacy. 46. V for Vendetta -- Alan Moore and David Lloyd. 47. Murder in Mahim -- Jerry Pinto. 48. The Life and Times of Jerry Pinto — Episode 314 of The Seen and the Unseen. 49. Hayao Miyazaki, Satyajit Ray and Martin Beck. 50. Disgrace -- JM Coetzee. 51. Moby Dick -- Herman Melville. 52. Julian Lage and Bill Frisell on Spotify. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here. Amit and Ajay also bring out a weekly YouTube show, Everything is Everything. Have you watched it yet? You must! And have you read Amit's newsletter? Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It's free! Also check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. Episode art: ‘Delhi' by Simahina.

Today we are discussing Ursula K. Le Guin's Hugo and Nebula award-winning 1969 science fiction novel, The Left Hand of Darkness. Join us to hear about ambisexual beings who defy gender norms, the initially sexist man who comes to love them and a sexually charged journey across a glacier.  Check out our website, where you can find our sources, as well as everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Instagram, Tumblr and Bluesky. [Image: A cropped cover of "The Left Hand of Darkness" featuring the author's name, Ursula K. Le Guin, as well as the tagline "A masterpiece from one of the great writers of the 20th Century".]