"She saw time naïvely as a road laid out. You walked ahead, and you got somewhere. If you were lucky, you got somewhere worth getting to."
About Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction and fantasy, including The Lathe of Heaven (1971) and the Earthsea series. Her writing explored anthropology, sociology, and politics through imaginative worldbuilding and feminist and anarchist themes.
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