Le Guin is one of the singular speculative voices of our future, thanks to her knack for anticipating issues of seminal importance to society

TLS

Her worlds have a magic sheen . . . She moulds them into dimensions we can only just sense. She is unique. She is legend

THE TIMES

I'd love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin

- Roddy Doyle,

A rare and powerful synthesis of poetry and science, reason and emotion

NEW YORK TIMES

[Le Guin had] the heart of a poet who knew all too well the difference between miracle and eureka, revelation and revolution

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Le Guin's storytelling is sharp, magisterial, funny, thought-provoking and exciting, exhibiting all that science fiction can be

EMPIRE

Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart

- David Mitchell, author of CLOUD ATLAS,

When I read <i>The Lathe of Heaven</i> as a young man, my mind was boggled; now when I read it, more than twenty-five years later, it breaks my heart. Only a great work of literature can bridge - so thrillingly - that impossible span

- Michael Chabon,

Le Guin writes tellingly of different kinds of society . . . and of the individual's response to them

DAILY TELEGRAPH