Re:Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds
by pulisse on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:52AM
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> Rhetorically, there are more similarities than differences.
Nobody reads Heinlein for the beauty of his prose, but Le Guin is frequently held up as one of the great stylists of the genre.
Re:Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds
by frostburg on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @07:41AM
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Actually, there is a surprising amount of crossdressing in Heinlein's work.
Neither is unique in that, but it seems like both were at opposite poles for their time. IMO the moral slant in both is rather heavy-handed and - ironically - there's a sort of bedrock of puritanism motivating both of them, although with different apparent aims, and expressed in very different ways.