Well yes, I have Ursula's album.
She was one of the more quotable writers in the sci-fi field. For example:
"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.” Ursula K. (for Kroeber, her maiden name) Le Guin may have been the most famous living female sci-fi author. She gave up that title when she died the other day at 88.
Most famous sci-fi fantasy author now goes, without any question, to Jerk Growling, or whatever her name is. The one who invented Squidgy, or whatever the game is. The one who melded the tired, tired concept of a little boy hero, with the even more tired concepts of sorcery and magic.
The sci-fi fantasy world is pretty much divided into two halves -- humorless nerds, and brainless putty-brains who are awed by just about anything if it takes place on a planet with a funny name.
Speaking for both of these groups is Stephen King:
"Godspeed into the galaxy."
GODSPEED INTO THE GALAXY??? If he had died first, would Ursula have said, "May you start howling in the great haunted hotel in the sky?"
No, I think she had something called "taste."
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