Ursula Le Guin

Jul 14, 2024 | news.stanford.edu | Ursula Le Guin |Chen Qiufan

Technology is transforming society, sometimes in unpredictable ways. In a spring quarter course taught by Stanford Professor Ban Wang, COLLEGE 113: Utopia, Dystopia, and Technology in Science Fiction, students considered some of those potential changes by using science fiction as a way to imagine what could unfold and their own responsibility and agency in that future.

Apr 16, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Frank Herbert |Ursula Le Guin |Iain M. Banks |Stephen Baxter

selected by Tom Huddleston out now The Worlds of Dune: The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert by Tom Huddleston For many readers of science fiction, world building is the most important feature of their favourite books.

Mar 3, 2023 | fivebooks.com | Octavia E. Butler |Mary Robinette Kowal |Kim Robinson |Ursula Le Guin

Space settlement is definitely on a lot of our minds these days, but what’s the history of it in literature? Have humans been thinking about settling in space for as long as we’ve been looking at the stars? They certainly have. It’s actually really fun for me to go back and read the older science fiction, when we hadn’t studied the planets enough yet to understand what it would be like to actually stand on the surface.