Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (pron.: /ˈɜrsələ ˈkroʊbər ləˈɡwɪn/; born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography. She was influenced by fantasy writers like J. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ursula+K.+Le+Guin">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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5 total works indexed

1. Minimal criteria for defining multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells. The International Society for Cellular Therapy position statement

   · 2006 · cited 14,478x

2. Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems

   · 2013 · cited 14,032x

3. <i>Planck</i> 2018 results

   · 2020 · cited 12,799x

4. A program for annotating and predicting the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms, SnpEff

   · 2012 · cited 11,043x

5. A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

   · 2010 · cited 9,798x

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Quotes

• “We read books to find out who we are.”
• “If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it, but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.”
• “Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.”
• “My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.”
• “All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.”
• “To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.”

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www.ursulakleguin.com

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Number of children

3

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