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Re:Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds by TheOtherHobbes on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @07:31AM (#19084687)
Hot take: she's the anti-Heinlein. Rhetorically, there are more similarities than differences. Both use fiction primarily for parables - to dramatise their own particular moral slant - rather than open-ended exploration.

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.

Re:Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds by pulisse on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:52AM (#19085729)
> 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 (#19084749)
Actually, there is a surprising amount of crossdressing in Heinlein's work.
Re:Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds by empath75 on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:59AM (#19085281)
And that’s not even scratching the surface of the unusual sexual entanglements his characters get into.

There’s a character in one short story who is his own mother _and_ father.